PHILOS 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Distributive Justice
26 Oct 2017
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Cohen"s critique of incentives for the more talented. Cohen: born in montreal, educated at mcgill and oxford, the argument: Principles of distributive justice, principles, that is, about the just distribution of bene ts and burdens in society, apply, wherever else they do, to people"s legally unconstrained choices : the di erence principle and inequalities. Rawls: inequalities are justi ed only if they bene t the least advantaged. E. g. the more talented may require special incentives (more than an ordinary wage) to work productively. Some of the surplus can, then, be used to improve the condition of the least advantaged. Dp and inequalities: the more talented could work productively without these special incentives if they wanted to, the more talented consider these rewards necessary because their choices. A just society requires not simply just coercive rules, but also an ethos of justice that informs individual choices.
