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51 Syracuse L. Rev. 987 (2001)
Ronald Dworkin on Redistribution to the Disabled

handle is hein.journals/syrlr51 and id is 999 raw text is: RONALD DWORKIN ON REDISTRIBUTION TO THE DISABLED Mark S. Steint CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 987 I. HYPOTHETICAL INSURANCE AND THE GREATER-BENEFIT CRITERION ...................................................................................... 989 A. Basics of Dworkin's Theory .................................................... 989 B. Hypothetical Insurance and Risk Attitudes ............................. 991 C. The Greater-Benefit Criterion in Hypothetical Insurance and Utilitarianism ................................................................... 993 D. Terminological Detour ........................................................... 994 II. HYPOTHETICAL INSURANCE AS HYPOTHETICAL-CHOICE UTILITARIANISM ............................................................................. 996 I. HYPOTHETICAL INSURANCE AS A DEVICE FOR MAKING INTERPERSONAL UTILITY COMPARISONS ...................................... 999 A. Attitudes to Risk .................................................................... 1001 B. Mistaken Predictions of Benefit ............................................ 1003 C. Incentive Effects .................................................................... 1004 D. Roemer on Hypothetical Insurance and Utilitarianism: Right the First Time .............................................................. 1005 IV. EQUALITY OF RESOURCES VERSUS HYPOTHETICAL INSURANCE ................................................................................... 1006 CONCLUSION ........................................................................................... 1013 INTRODUCTION Egalitarian theorists of distributive justice have difficulty addressing the problem of redistribution to the disabled. Egalitarians tend to be drawn toward one of two unpalatable positions: virtually unlimited redistribution from the nondisabled to the disabled, in an attempt to bring the disabled as close as possible to equality of welfare with the nondisabled; or an equal t Lecturer, Yale University, Department of Political Science; Ph.D., 2001, Yale University;, J.D., 1983, University of Michigan. The author acknowledges with thanks the comments of John Roemer and members of the Yale Graduate Political Theory Workshop. 987

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