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Obligations of Privilege
N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE (2007)
  • Ezra Rosser, American University Washington College of Law
Abstract
Little attention is paid to the nature of the high incomes of the rich or to the legal or norm-based obligations the rich owe society. This popular and scholarly inattention reflects the general acceptance of the idea that the rich have earned their high incomes and owe society little. By looking at income equations revealing society's role in high incomes and the obligations of the rich, the Article urges a strengthening of the obligations of the rich and rejects the argument that the legal community ought not consider the moral demands associated with high incomes.
Keywords
  • Obligations,
  • Poverty,
  • Wealth,
  • Inheritance,
  • Privilege
Publication Date
2007
Citation Information
Ezra Rosser. "Obligations of Privilege" N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE Vol. 32 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ezra_rosser/5/