The Quest For Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
How the Desire for Equality Is Corrupting the Standards of Justice
Contends that the pursuit of an all-encompassing, engineered fairness is unrealistic and damaging, because efforts to equalize outcomes ignore trade-offs, incentives, and the complexity of social systems. It critiques policies such as redistributive schemes, quotas, and other group-based interventions for producing unintended consequences that often worsen the problems they aim to solve, and argues for prioritizing equality of opportunity, individual responsibility, empirical analysis, and respect for market processes and traditions.
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- 1999
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