Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. Rawlsian Egalitarianism
2. Luck Egalitarianism
3. Telic Egalitarianism
4. Prioritarianism
5. Sufficientarianism
6. Distribution Over Time
7. Equality in Health and Health Care
8. Relational Egalitarianism
Conclusion.
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Iwao Hirose is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy at McGill University, Canada. He is the author of The Ethics of Pandemics (Routledge, 2023), The Ethics of Health Care Rationing (with Greg Bognar, Routledge, second edition 2022), and Moral Aggregation (2015). With Jonas Olson he is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (2015), and with Andrew Reisner of Weighing and Reasoning (2015).
Praise for the first edition:
“A superb introduction to egalitarianism as a theory of distributive justice. It is very clear, covers all the key issues, and manages to be rigorous without getting bogged down in detail. An ideal book for an upper level undergraduate course or a graduate course.”
– Peter Vallentyne, University of Missouri, USA“This is a wonderful introduction to and insightful discussion of the core aspects of egalitarianism. With exemplary style, Hirose manages to bridge the gap between abstract philosophical analysis and concrete distributive judgments. It will be of great interest to philosophers, but also accessible to those working and studying in a wide range of disciplines.”
– Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Aarhus University, Denmark
