ALL1512-C First 6 Weeks Thursday 3:00-4:20 Start Date 17-Sep
Grossman 115 Limit 25
Does justice demand that we redistribute income or other resources from some citizens to others who are less well-off? We all have notions of what justice requires, but it is hard to get a very clear idea of why we think the way we do. In this course, we will compare five basic principles thought to justify redistribution: liberty, equality, utility, sufficiency, and something called (maxi)minimality, which means helping the least well-off as much as possible. Is one of these values fundamental to questions of economic justice, or should we attempt to blend or balance them in some way? How should such issues be decided in a free society? This six-week course will be run as an informal seminar, with at least as much discussion as lecture. Readings will be sent out by the coordinator.
Coordinator: Theodore Everett 
Ted is Professor Emeritus at SUNY Geneseo, where he taught philosophy for 25 years before retiring with his wife to Brewster. This will be his fourth course at ALL.
Coordinator: Bruce Everett
Bruce is a retired ExxonMobil executive with multiple degrees in international economics. He taught energy economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
Here Ted discusses his previous course “Understanding Disagreement.”
