Does justice require that individuals get what they deserve? Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers examining the relation between desert and justice; they also illuminate the nature of distributive justice, and the relationship between desert and other values, such as equality and responsibility.

• Introduction: debating desert and justice


• 1: David Miller: Comparative and non-comparative desert


• 2: Thomas Hurka: Desert: individualistic and holistic


• 3: Samuel Scheffler: Distributive justice and economic desert


• 4: Shelley Kagan: Comparative desert


• 5: Owen McLeod: On the comparative element of justice


• 6: Fred Feldman: Return to Twin Peaks: on the intrinsic moral significance of equality


• 7: Peter Vallentyne: Brute luck equality and desert


• 8: Serena Olsaretti: Distributive justice and compensatory desert


• 9: George Sher: Effort and imagination


• 10: Jonathan Wolff: The dilemma of desert


• 11: Richard Arneson: The Smart theory of moral responsibility and desert


• Bibliography


• Index