The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
In the following autumn, in response to the increasing misery of lower-income households caused by inflation, the UK government declared a uniform 5 percent income tax cut to stimulate economic growth. Perhaps we may start by accepting Rawls's position that "differences of talents are as morally arb...
| Publicado en: | Utopian Studies Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 154 - 158 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2023
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