Ebook: Short History of Distributive Justice

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith; 1. Two Kinds of Justice; 2. The Right of Necessity; 3. Property Rights; 4. Communal Experiments and Utopian Writings; 5. Poor Laws; 2. The Eighteenth Century; 1. Citizen Equality: Rousseau; 2. Changing Our Picture of the Poor: Smith; 3. The Equal Worth of Human Beings: Kant; 4. To the Vendome Palais de Justice: Babeuf; 3. From Babeuf to Rawls; 1. Reaction; 2. Positivists; 3. Marx; 4. Utilitarians; 5. Rawls; 6. After Rawls; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.