The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Oxford University Press (2019)
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In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor reveals how cultural evolution works on social categories such as race and gender to generate unfairness.

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