2012/01/01 by Roderick T. Long · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Political Economy and Marxism #Economic Theory and Institutions #Political Philosophy and Ethics
paper · doi:10.1080/10383441.2012.10854747
openalex publication_date 2012/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
A frequent objection to the ‘historical’ (in Nozick’s sense) approach to distributive justice is that it serves to legitimate existing massive inequalities of wealth. It is argued that, on the contrary, the historical approach, thanks to its fit with the market anarchist theory of class conflict, represents a far more effective tool for challenging these inequalities than do relatively end-oriented approaches such as utilitarianism and Rawlsianism.