HOW GIFTS AND GAMBLES PRESERVE JUSTICE
This paper examines G. A. Cohen's final criticism of Ronald Dworkin's theory ofequality of resources, which targets its treatment of inequalities that arise when some individuals make luckier choices than others make. Rebutting Cohen's argument that suchoption luck inequalitiesfail to be just in an unqualified sense, the paper argues that choice does not merely render inequality legitimate but instead can sometimes make inequality just. It also examines the relationship between Cohen's criticism and the conception of equality developed in his earlier influential paper, ‘On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice’.
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1967 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 239-251
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