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The Difference Principle at Work*

2011; Wiley; Volume: 20; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1467-9760.2010.00393.x

1467-9760

Samuel Arnold,

Social Policy and Reform Studies

Journal of Political PhilosophyVolume 20, Issue 1 p. 94-118 The Difference Principle at Work* SAMUEL ARNOLD, SAMUEL ARNOLD Politics, Princeton UniversitySearch for more papers by this author SAMUEL ARNOLD, SAMUEL ARNOLD Politics, Princeton UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 March 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2010.00393.xCitations: 34 † Thanks to participants in the Princeton University Political Theory Research Seminar and the Princeton University Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellows Workshop for helpful feedback on earlier versions of this article. Special thanks to Javier Hidalgo, Brookes Brown, Joshua Wilburn, and referees at The Journal of Political Philosophy for very useful comments and criticisms. Finally, thanks to Chuck Beitz and Alan Patten for guidance on this article as well as the dissertation from which it is drawn. 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