Luck Egalitarianism: Equality, Responsibility, and Justice

Carl Knight

July, 2009
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3869-7
Edinburgh University Press
$115.00

"Responsibility-sensitive" accounts of distributive justice have been a notable recent development in political theory, and luck egalitarianism has become the default position among such philosophers as Ronald Dworkin, G. A. Cohen, and Richard Arneson. This book outlines the key issues of luck egalitarianism and considers both the positions of its proponents and its leading critics (Elizabeth Anderson, Susan Hurley, and Samuel Scheffler

Key Features

• Presents a critical survey of already classic debates about responsibility, equality and justice
• Provides a sustained engagement with luck egalitarianism's critics
• Stakes a distinctive position on the key questions regarding luck egalitarianism

About the Author

Carl Knight is research fellow at the Adam Smith Research Foundation at the University of Glasgow.

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