Books by David (University of Arizona) Schmidtz

What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Thus, the formal question of what people are due is answered by principles of desert, reciprocity, equality, or need.

The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare systems. David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare.