Distributional justice Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Theories of Justice	5
2	About distributional justice	7
3	Deserts and the fruits of our labor	15
4	Welfarism: utilitarianism and welfare economics	20
5	John Rawl's theory of justice	36
6	Equality of what? Resources and capabilities	46
7	Libertarianism and Marxism	51
8	Children and their mothers	56
Pt. II	Measuring inequality	63
9	Income and wealth	65
10	Household income	78
11	What should we measure?	86
12	Lorenz curves and inequality measures	92
13	Social evaluation of inequality	107
14	Some inequality measures	112
15	Poverty	118
16	Decomposition of inequality measures	123
App. A	uncertainty and expected utility	134
App. B	sampling errors	137
	Notes	139
	Suggested further reading	140
	References	142
	Index	147