Disadvantage

by Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit

Book Overview

What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, Wolff and de-Shalit show how taking theory and practice together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199655588
• ISBN13: 9780199655588
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"