On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
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First Statement of Responsibility
\ G. A. Cohen ; edited by Michael Otsuka.
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Princeton, N.J.
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: Princeton University Press
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, 2011.
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xi, 268 p.
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Index
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On the currency of egalitarian justice -- Equality of what? On welfare, goods, and capabilities -- Sen on capability, freedom, and control -- Expensive taste rides again -- Luck and equality -- Fairness and legitimacy in justice, and: does option luck ever preserve justice? -- Capitalism, freedom, and the proletariat -- Freedom and money -- Mind the gap -- Back to socialist basics -- How to do political philosophy -- Rescuing justice from constructivism and equality from the basic structure restriction.
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This is a posthumous collection of essays in political philosophy by G.A. Cohen. Part I asks what egalitarians have most reason to equalize. Part II considers the relationship between freedom and property. Part III reflects upon ideal theory and political practice.