Impractical Equality.(Review)(Brief Review)

From: Reason | Date: October 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, by Ronald Dworkin, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 505 pages, $35.00

Throughout his long and distinguished career as an academic lawyer and political philosopher, Ronald Dworkin has been obsessed with a single theme: to show how an--or, more precisely, his--egalitarian vision of the world can shape the character of our legal, political, social, and market institutions. In Sovereign Equality, Dworkin brings together essays that he has written on this subject over the past 20 years and wages a two-front war to persuade ...

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