University Education Fees, Economic Rents and Distributive Justice.
In this article I defend the claim that subsidies for university education should be substantially reduced. The normative justification for this conclusion derives from a theory of distributive justice called the Compensation Theory of Income Justice, which is most easily understood as a normative v...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 287 - 307 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2014
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