The Luck of the Draw by Peter Stone
In The Luck of the Draw, Peter Stone surveys the substantial number of arguments for and against lotteries and argues that lotteries have only one crucial effect relevant to decision-making: they have the 'sanitizing effect' of preventing decisions from being made on the basis of reasons.
Stone does a wonderful job in unifying the discussion of scarce good lotteries under the umbrella of impartiality... the implementation of general criteria of justice ... is enough to make The Luck of Draw an excellent read. * David Teira, Journal of Economics and Philosophy *
Peter Stone is Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University. He has been researching the theory and practice of random selection for over a decade, and his work on the subject has been published in such journals as the Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Political Theory, and Social Theory and Practice. He also works on broader issues relating to justice, democracy, and rationality.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199756100 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199756104 |
| Title | The Luck of the Draw |
| Author | Peter Stone |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2011-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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