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Liberty, Desert and the Market Serena Olsaretti (University of Cambridge)

Liberty, Desert and the Market By Serena Olsaretti (University of Cambridge)

Liberty, Desert and the Market by Serena Olsaretti (University of Cambridge)


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Defenders of the free market argue that inequalities of income are just because they are deserved, and that they are what free individuals are entitled to. This book challenges those arguments, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers in political philosophy, political theory and economics.

Liberty, Desert and the Market Summary

Liberty, Desert and the Market: A Philosophical Study by Serena Olsaretti (University of Cambridge)

Are inequalities of income created by the free market just? In this book Serena Olsaretti examines two main arguments that justify those inequalities: the first claims that they are just because they are deserved, and the second claims that they are just because they are what free individuals are entitled to. Both these arguments purport to show, in different ways, that giving responsible individuals their due requires that free market inequalities in incomes be allowed. Olsaretti argues, however, that neither argument is successful, and shows that when we examine closely the principle of desert and the notions of liberty and choice invoked by defenders of the free market, it appears that a conception of justice that would accommodate these notions, far from supporting free market inequalities, calls for their elimination. Her book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in political philosophy, political theory and normative economics.

About Serena Olsaretti (University of Cambridge)

Serena Olsaretti is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is the editor of Desert and Justice (2003) and has also published in The Journal of Political Philosophy and Utilitas.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Desert and justifications of the market; 2. Incentive payments and compensatory desert; 3. Productive contributions and deserved market rewards; 4. Liberty and entitlements in the libertarian justification of the free market; 5. The moralised defence of the free market: a critique; 6. The free market, force and choice: beyond libertarians and their critics; Conclusion.

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NLS9780521107815
9780521107815
0521107814
Liberty, Desert and the Market: A Philosophical Study by Serena Olsaretti (University of Cambridge)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2009-01-29
196
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