What is Wrong With Winner-Takes-All
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21876346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Bennett (0000-0001-9819-3397, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 800-819 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2025.10004 |
| OpenAlex | W4412190318 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Modern market economies use competitions to distribute a range of social goods. Some theorists maintain that such competitions ought not to generate winner-takes-all outcomes. But the arguments that have been given against competitions with winner-takes-all outcomes fail to find fault with winner-takes-all outcomes per se (or so I argue). Is there, then, anything wrong with winner-takes-all outcomes? I argue that there is: winner-takes-all outcomes are wrong, in at least most distributive competitions, because they do not give people what they deserve
Winner-take-all · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Artificial Intelligence
Bottlenecks
Against Rawlsian Equality of Opportunity
V—Fairness
Why Does Inequality Matter?
Pursuing Equal Opportunities
A Theory of Justice
Liberty, Desert and the Market
Why not be a desertist?
Comparative and Noncomparative Desert
Two Concepts of Competition
How to Make Opportunity Equal
Two Cheers for Meritocracy
Desert and Wages
Proportionality in the Philosophy of Punishment
Is Lottery a Better Way of Resource Distribution Than Baseline Funding
Proportionality, winner-take-all, and distributive justice
Principles of stakes fairness in sport
Negating Positive Desert Claims
Deserving Jobs
Organized Combat or Structural Advantage? The Politics of Inequality and the Winner-Take-All Economy in the United Kingdom
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |