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 ...

The issue of just savings between generations presents an important, and for the most part unappreciated, problem for Rawls's theory of distributive justice. This paper argues that the just savings ...

John Rawls, who died on November 24, raised modern political philosophy from the pit of Marxist and linguistic analysis and revived it as a serious subject for citizens of the real world. He believed ...

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 ...

There are few concepts that carry more emotional clout than justice, and more recently, social justice. So those leading any movement or ideology must make clear they advocate for a just society and ...