Justice, Institutions, and Luck: The Site, Ground, and Scope of Equality
Kok-Chor Tan - OUP Oxford, 2014
Kok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions
in egalitarian distributive justice: Where does distributive equality matter?;
Why does it matter?; And among whom does it matter? He argues for an
institutional site for egalitarian justice, and suggests that the mitigation of
arbitrariness or luck is the basis for distributive commitments. He also argues
that distributive obligations are global in scope, applying between individuals
across borders. Tan's objectives are tripartite: to clarify the basis of an
institutional approach to justice; to establish luck egalitarianism as an
account of the ground of equality; and to realize the global nature of
egalitarian justice. The outcome is 'institutional luck egalitarianism'—a new
cosmopolitan position on distributive justice
