Why Not Socialism?

By G. Cohen. 2009

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CHAPTER I: The Camping Trip CHAPTER II: The Principles Realized on the Camping Trip CHAPTER III: Is the Ideal Desirable? CHAPTER IV: Is the Ideal Feasible? Are the Obstacles to It Human Selfishness, or Poor Social Technology? CHAPTER V: Coda Acknowledgment

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (2016, background): “For instance, Cohen (2009) has suggested that the inequalities allowed by an equal-opportunity theory should, if they are large, be reduced by appealing to the value of social unity (what he calls “community”), which will be strained if outcome inequali - ties are too large.”
• Kantian optimization: A microfoundation for cooperation (2015, background): “It is appropriate to begin this section with a thought of the political philosopher, Cohen (2009), who offers a definition of ‘socialism’ as a society in which earnings of individuals at first accord with a conception of equality of opportunity that has developed in the last thirty years in…”