BENNETT, MATTHEW (2025) What is Wrong With Winner-Takes-All? Journal of the American Philosophical Association. pp. 1-20. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10004
BENNETT, MATTHEW (2025) What is Wrong With Winner-Takes-All? Journal of the American Philosophical Association. pp. 1-20. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10004
BENNETT, MATTHEW (2025) What is Wrong With Winner-Takes-All? Journal of the American Philosophical Association. pp. 1-20. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10004
Abstract
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>Modern market economies use competitions to distribute a range of social goods. Some theorists maintain that such competitions ought not to generate winner-takes-all outcomes. But the arguments that have been given against competitions with winner-takes-all outcomes fail to find fault with winner-takes-all outcomes per se (or so I argue). Is there, then, anything wrong with winner-takes-all outcomes? I argue that there is: winner-takes-all outcomes are wrong, in at least most distributive competitions, because they do not give people what they deserve.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | winner-takes-all; competition; desert; distributive justice |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2025 12:15 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2025 12:42 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/41584 |
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