Cass Sunstein has a nice piece looking at the claims that Thomas Piketty makes about inequality and whether that actually accords with what most people think are acceptable levels of inequality.

In what seems like a previous life, I slogged through John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. Rawls argued that we should judge policies that would treat different people differently by applying what he ...

John Rawls, one of the 20 th century’s most notable political philosophers, proposed a theory of distributive justice known as justice as fairness. According to his theory, once a society successfully ...

Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution to benefit the least well-off. Robert Nozick opposed this view, arguing for ...

John Rawls follows the "democratic equality view" for the way of dividing social and economic profits. The democratic equality view is the way of dividing with a combination of the equal opportunity ...

Since the death of John Rawls last week at the age of 82, many eulogistic pieces have appeared in the press hailing him as the greatest political philosopher of his time. Virtually all of them cited ...