Skepticism About Distributive Justice

Brennan explains that the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick offered important criticisms of pattern-​based theories of distributive justice and offered his own alternative framework.

Jason Brennan

Jason Brennan is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is the author of Against Democracy (2016), Markets without Limits (2015), Compulsory Voting: For and Against (2014), Why Not Capitalism? (2014), Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (2012), The Ethics of Voting (2011), and A Brief History of Liberty (2010). Brennan also blogs at Bleeding Heart Libertarians.

Brennan explains that the libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick offered important criticisms of pattern-​based theories of distributive justice and offered his own alternative framework.

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Political Philosophy: An Introduction

This book serves as an introduction to some of the major theories of justice, to the arguments philosophers have made for and against these theories, and, ultimately, to how to be more thoughtful and rigorous in your own thinking.