 The debate between libertarian and liberal theories of distributive justice is a long-standing one within analytic political philosophy; Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia offered a challenge to Rawlsian conceptions of distributive justice (Nozick 1974). Nozick argued that a rightful respect for property rights made it impossible for a just state to pursue “patterned” principles of distributive justice. The right to property, if respected, would make such principles of economic equality chimerical at best, and totalitarian at worst. 