Lucas Stanczyk has been assistant professor of political science and affiliated faculty of philosophy at MIT. In 2016-17 he will be a research fellow at Brown University, and in 2017 he will join the philosophy department at Harvard.
Lucas will present material from a book manuscript titled From Each: A Theory of Productive Justice. In this manuscript, Lucas develops a framework for thinking about the rights and duties of liberal citizenship in an integrated way. He then deploys this framework to expose injustices in how modern societies reproduce themselves. These injustices arise when, thanks to the design of safety nets, ordinary citizens are made to work substantially more than what a liberal society at an advanced stage of economic development could reasonably expect. Conversely, productive injustices arise when the basic structure of the economy effectively lets the wealthy off the hook in myriad ways. To allow us to appreciate these injustices, the book develops tools for thinking about the kind of labor contribution that a liberal society can reasonably demand from each person, and it uses these tools to describe the way that actual societies routinely go overboard in their expectations for ordinary workers while being far too lenient on the wealthy.
Lucas will present material from a book manuscript titled From Each: A Theory of Productive Justice. In this manuscript, Lucas develops a framework for thinking about the rights and duties of liberal citizenship in an integrated way. He then deploys this framework to expose injustices in how modern societies reproduce themselves. These injustices arise when, thanks to the design of safety nets, ordinary citizens are made to work substantially more than what a liberal society at an advanced stage of economic development could reasonably expect. Conversely, productive injustices arise when the basic structure of the economy effectively lets the wealthy off the hook in myriad ways. To allow us to appreciate these injustices, the book develops tools for thinking about the kind of labor contribution that a liberal society can reasonably demand from each person, and it uses these tools to describe the way that actual societies routinely go overboard in their expectations for ordinary workers while being far too lenient on the wealthy.