Examining institutions critical when exploring progress on social justice

Joseph Heath, author of Cooperation & Social Justice, said he wanted to write a book that presents a more practical, policy-relevant way of thinking about basic questions of social justice. An excerpt is published here.

Joseph Heath, author of Cooperation & Social Justice, published by University of Toronto Press 2022. 'My goal in writing this book was to think about questions of justice in a way that takes institutions more seriously. What do our ideals of justice look like if we also attend to the constraints imposed by the need to implement them?'Photograph courtesy of Oxford University Press.

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BY JOSEPH HEATH

April 17, 2023

When dealing with any persistent or longstanding social problem, especially one that is widely-acknowledged and yet remains unresolved, there is a natural tendency to attribute the lack of progress to a failure of commitment on the part of others.

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