Political Economic Deserts and Desert Bases

According to the desertist theory of distributive justice defended in this book, there is perfect political economic distributive justice in a country if and only if the government of that country ensures that its citizens receive the political economic deserts that they deserve to receive in virtue of their possession of the relevant political economic desert bases. One aim of this chapter is to explain why these deserts and bases are the specifically political economic deserts and bases. The explanation of this point involves the use of the idea of community essential need which is derived from Aristotle. There follows a catalog of the most important of these political economic deserts and desert bases. The chapter concludes with a discussion some things that some of us deserve, but that are not political economic deserts. Once these items have been described, the proposed theory of justice has been explicated.

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