A republic of equals : a manifesto for a just society / Jonathan Rothwell.
Publisher's description: Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income inequality observed in the United States a...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Behind the discontent
- The natural foundations of a just society
- Merit-based egalitarianism
- The importance of equal access to public goods and markets
- Unequal access to education
- The historical contingencies of group differences in skills
- Unequal access to housing markets
- How unequal access to housing perpetuates group inequality and injustice
- Unequal access to the buying and selling of professional services
- Creating a just society.