Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage

Alexander Kaufman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia, where he has taught political theory since 2000. His research and teaching interests include distributive justice, theories of equality, social contract theory, German idealism, philosophy of law, constitutional law, and the theory of the welfare state.

• Introduction Alexander Kaufman; Part I. Justice and Justification: 1. The fundamental disagreement between luck egalitarians and relational egalitarians Elizabeth Anderson; 2. Justice, interpersonal morality, and luck egalitarianism Peter Vallentyne; 3. The egalitarian ethos as a social mechanism Joseph H. Carens; 4. Justice and the crooked wood of human nature Adam Cureton; 5. Facts, principles, and the Third Man Lea Ypi; Part II. Justice and Equality: 6. Equality and freedom: Cohen's critique of Sen Alexander Kaufman; 7. The incoherence of luck egalitarianism David Miller; 8. What is the point of egalitarian social relationships? Patrick Tomlin; 9. Basic equality and the currency of egalitarian justice Gabriel Wollner; Part III. Equality and Society: 10. Why not capitalism? Richard J. Arneson; 11. The labor theory of justice Chandran Kukathas; 12. Rescuing justice and equality from libertarianism Serena Olsaretti.

'G. A. Cohen would have enjoyed this superb volume immensely, regardless of the fact that many of the contributors take him to task. The chapters exhibit the seriousness of purpose and quality of argument that characterized his own work.' Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor of the Social Sciences, Columbia University