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The Solidarity Solution: Principles for a Fair Income Distribution

Autor Kristi A. Olson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 dec 2020
Kristi A. Olson asks: What is a fair income distribution? She rejects equal income shares: equal pay undercompensates workers in dangerous and onerous jobs. The envy test, which takes both income and work into account, fares better. Yet, a distribution in which no one prefers someone else's circumstances to her own-as the envy test requires-is unlikely to exist, and even when it does exist, the normative connection between envy and fairness has not been established. After critiquing existing answers, Olson invokes the idea of mutual justifiability: when someone claims that her situation should be improved at someone else's expense, she must be able to give a reason that cannot be reasonably rejected by a free and equal individual who regards everyone else as the same. To give the answer bite, Olson distinguishes two types of envy. Reasons based on personal envy can be reasonably rejected; reasons based on impersonal envy cannot. Olson then tests the solidarity solution against the theories of Ronald Dworkin, Philippe Van Parijs, and Marc Fleurbaey and applies it directly to the concrete issues of the gender wage gap and taxation. By providing a new approach to problems of fair resource allocation, The Solidarity Solution establishes philosophical discussion as critical to today's fight to end economic injustice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190907457
ISBN-10: 0190907452
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 236 x 155 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Olson's treatment [of this question] is among the most comprehensive and well-argued one can find. The manuscript is well researched, scholarly, packed full of arguments and low on fluff. It is well worth the time of anyone interested in fairness in the sphere of work and income... Olson's book, my minor points notwithstanding, is truly impressive. It leaves no stone unturned. It is meticulous and carefully argued. Anyone wishing to engage with fairness in work, talents and leisure would have to reckon with what Olson has to say on the matter.
Olson's book is exceptional, and is an exemplar of how analytic philosophy, done well, can yield important insights about matters of public policy, as well as more abstract issues of political principle. The monograph makes a major contribution not only to the literature on compensation for labor, but to the literature on distributive justice more generally. The book will be a 'must-read' for all professional philosophers working on distributive justice, and will also be of significant interest to those working in related fields like normative economics.

Notă biografică

Kristi A. Olson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College, where she works on issues of distributive justice. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University under the supervision of Thomas Scanlon, Frances Kamm, and Amartya Sen. Her research has been published in such journals as Philosophy & Public Affairs, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., she worked as a public interest lawyer.