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Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-10019824875X

ISBN-139780198248750

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038263917

Product Key Features

Number of Pages398 Pages

Publication NameEqual Justice

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Jurisprudence

Publication Year1991

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLaw

AuthorEric Rakowski

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight24.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN90-021167

Dewey Edition20

Reviews'A provocative, well-argued, elegantly written book that will root out any complacency that a reader might have had about these eternal issues on starting it.'Howard Davies, Times Higher Education Supplement

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal340/.115

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Equality of Fortune: The presumption in favor of equal shares; Voluntary choices and emergent inequalities; Ineluctable risks: illness and injury; Occupational preferences, effort, and desert; Unequal endowments; Gifts, bequests, and intergenerational obligations; Justice and the transfer of body parts; Part II. Corrective Justice: The problem of liability rules: the failings of wealth maximization as a normative ideal; Outline of a theory of corrective justice; Illustrations; Part III. Saving and Taking Life: Do numbers count when saving lives?; The relevance of personal characteristics to choices between lives; Killing people or animals to benefit others; Envoi; Bibliography; Index

SynopsisThe core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. In the light of this theory, Eric Rakowski considers three types of problem which urgently require solutions - the distribution of resources, property rights, and the saving of life - and provides challenging and unconventional answers. Further, he criticizes the economic analysis of law as a normative theory, and develops an alternative account of tort and property law.Among the topics discussed are the principles by which earnings, wealth, and gifts should be taxed; whether the compulsory removal of organs for transplantation can be justified; how doctors and public officials should make life-or-death decisions when all those endangered cannot be helped in equal measure; and the morality of killing human beings and non-human animals., The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. In the light of this theory, Rakowski considers three types of problems which urgently require solutions-- the distribution of resources, property rights, and the saving of life--and provides challenging and unconventional answers. Further, he criticizes the economic analysis of law as a normative theory, and develops an alternative account of tort and property law.

LC Classification NumberK370.R35 1991