Entrepreneurs, profits, and deserving market shares

Social Philosophy and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-16

  Christman, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84972172738     PISSN: 02650525     EISSN: 14716437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026505250000265X     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), pp. 15, 310–15.
2. Joel Feinberg, “Justice and Personal Desert” in Doing and Deserving (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), pp. 55–94.
3. John Hospers, Human Conduct: An Introduction to the Problems of Ethics (New York: Harcourt Brace 1961), pp. 433–46.
4. Allen Buchanan, in Ethics, Efficiency and the Market (Totowa: Rowman and Allenheld, 1985), pp. 51–53.
5. Rawls, A Theory, and Feinberg, “Justice,” pp. 88–94, follow this strategy.
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7. Paul Samuelson, Economics (New York: McGraw Hill, 1967), ch. 31.
8. Frank Knight, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit (New York: Kelly and Millman, 1957), ch. 9.
9. Hal Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (New York: Norton Press, 1984), p. 6.
10. Israel Kirzner, Competition and Entrepreneurship (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1973), ch. 2.
11. Samuelson, Economics, pp. 592ff.
12. Knight, Risk, ch. 2.
13. Knight, Risk, p. 280.
14. Feinberg, “Justice,” p. 61.
15. N. Scott Arnold, “Why Profits Are Deserved,” Ethics, vol. 97, no. 2 (January 1987), pp. 387–402.
16. Arnold “Why Profits Are Deserved,” p. 397.
17. Feinberg, “Justice,” pp. 81ff.
18. Arnold, “Profits,” p. 393.
19. Rawls “Two Concepts of Rules,” Philosophical Review, vol. 64 (1955), pp. 3–32.
20. John Kleinig, “The Concept of Desert,” American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1 january, 1971), p. 75.
21. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, p. 310.
22. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 213–215.
23. Alan Zaitchick, “On Deserving to Deserve,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 6, no. 4 (Fall 1977).
24. Arnold, “Profits,” p. 395.
25. Knight, Risks, p. xx.
26. Rawls, A Theory of Justice p. 311.
27. Buchanan, Ethics, p. 52.
28. For elaboration on this point, see Nell, pp. 408 ff.