Relocating the responsibility cut: should more responsibility imply less redistribution?

Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2006, vol. 5, issue 3, 353-362

Abstract: Liberal egalitarian theories of justice argue that inequalities arising from non-responsibility factors should be eliminated, but that inequalities arising from responsibility factors should be accepted. This article discusses how the fairness argument for redistribution within a liberal egalitarian framework is affected by a relocation of the cut between responsibility and non-responsibility factors. The article also discusses the claim that equalization of some non-responsibility factors will reduce the ideal level of redistribution.

Keywords: responsibility; liberal egalitarianism; redistribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X06068304

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