- Does distributive justice require that social and economic inequalities be arranged so that they are of the greatest benefit to the least advantaged members of society?
- Lamont, Julian and Christi Favor, Distributive Justice, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall, 2014).
- Rawls, John, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971, chs. 1-2.
- Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books, 1974, ch. 7, sect. II.
- Cohen, G. A., Rescuing Justice and Equality, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008, ch. 4.
- Barry, Brian, Theories of Justice, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
- Barry, Brian, Justice as Impartiality, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
- Daniels, Norman (ed.), Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls' A theory of justice, New York: Basic Books, 1975.
- Harsanyi, John, Can the Maximin Principle Serve as the Basis for Morality?, American Political Science Review, vol. 69, no. 2 (June, 1975), pp. 594-606.
- Miller, David, Principles of Social Justice, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999.
- Miller, David & Michael Walzer (eds.) Pluralism, Justice and Equality, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Rawls, John, Political Liberalism, New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
- Rawls, John, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Scanlon, Thomas, What We Owe to Each Other, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1999.
- Walzer, Michael, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, New York: Basic Books, 1983.
- Young, Iris M., Justice and the Politics of Difference, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- What should be the role of desert in a theory of justice?
- Should justice be the supreme virtue of societies?
- Is equality of opportunity an intelligible objective?
- Does justice ever require some individuals to work for the benefit of others?
- Do we need an ideal conception of justice in order to evaluate rival policy options?
- To what extent (if at all) is justice a matter of distributing goods and bads according to desert?
- What role, if any, should the notion of entitlement OR incentives play in our thinking about distributive justice?
- Does a hypothetical social contract provide a satisfactory way to identify principles of social justice?
- 'It may be thought... that the principles of justice do not apply to the family and hence those principles do not secure justice for women and their children. This is a misconception.' (RAWLS) Is it?