TY  - GEN
AU  - Mulligan,Thomas
TI  - Justice and the Meritocratic State
SN  - 9781315270005
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Anarchy
KW  - A Theory of Justice
KW  - capital
KW  - consequences
KW  - cronyism
KW  - David Miller
KW  - desert
KW  - desert-based theory of justice
KW  - distributive justice
KW  - economic justice
KW  - egalitarianism
KW  - equality
KW  - equal opportunity
KW  - essentialism
KW  - George Sher
KW  - inheritance tax
KW  - intuition
KW  - John Rawls
KW  - Justice and the Meritocratic State
KW  - justice
KW  - libertarianism
KW  - liberty
KW  - meritocracy
KW  - meritocratic public policy
KW  - nepotism
KW  - personal identity
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - public policy
KW  - Robert Nozick
KW  - State, and Utopia
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve.　 Mulligan sets forth a theory of economic justice—meritocracy—which rests upon a desert principle and is distinctive from existing work in two ways. First, meritocracy is grounded in empirical research on how human beings think, intuitively, about justice. Research in social psychology and experimental economics reveals that people simply don’t think that social goods should be distributed equally, nor do they dismiss the idea of social justice. Across ideological and cultural lines, people believe that rewards should reflect merit. Second, the book discusses hot-button political issues and makes concrete policy recommendations. These issues include anti-meritocratic bias against women and racial minorities and the United States’ widening economic inequality. Justice and the Meritocratic State offers a new theory of justice and provides solutions to our most vexing social and economic problems. It will be of keen interest to philosophers, economists, and political theorists
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47576/1/9781351980777.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47576/1/9781351980777.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64269
ER  -