Acknowledgments
There are so many people who have contributed to this book in so many ways, either by providing substantive feedback on its arguments, asking helpful questions at conferences, suggesting ways for me to improve my writing, or providing me with the inspiration and material support that I needed to complete the project.
I am indebted, first, to Hilary Gaskin at Cambridge University Press for believing in this project and patiently working with me to get it published. Special mention also goes to Adina Preda for giving me the opportunity to work on the book (and for her many helpful comments). I am also grateful to Peter Vallentyne, Carol Gould, Eric Roark, Kei Numao, Fabian Wendt, Miranda Fricker, Charles Mills, and multiple anonymous reviewers for providing generous, detailed, and constructive feedback on various chapters of the book. I further benefitted from the many helpful comments and suggestions made by participants at the Locke and Lockeanism Working Group Meeting; the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Annual Meeting; the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference; the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics (GISME) workshop; and the Trinity Centre for Justice and Values Works in Progress Workshop. Chris Fowler provided some much-needed assistance when it came to finding elegant numbers for the tables in Chapter 6. And this book would not have been completed without the outstanding mentoring, advocacy, and emotional support provided to me by my parents, friends, partner, undergraduate mentors (Peter Kung, Susan McWilliams, and Michael Green), graduate advisor (Carol Gould), and postdoctoral supervisor (Adina Preda). I am also thankful to the editors and anonymous reviewers of Philosophical Studies for their helpful comments on my paper “Luck Egalitarianism without Moral Tyranny” (published in 2022), which I have adapted into Chapter 6 of this book.
In terms of financial support, this project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 819043). Some of the ideas in this book also emerged out of my dissertation, which was generously supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the solidarity and collective bargaining efforts of the Professional Staff Congress.
Finally, I am thankful for all of the countless anarchists, socialists, and other radicals whose writings – in books and zines, on forums and walls – influenced this book. I hope that those reading the book will find its various arguments to be similarly useful.
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