Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Andrew Lister's Justice and Reciprocity (Oxford University Press, 2024) examines how reciprocity functions within John Rawls's justice as fairness, arguing that reciprocity should be understood as a limiting condition on some duties rather than merely a psychological fact or a foundational duty.

Grounded in a relational conception of equality, the book develops distinctions among conceptions of reciprocity and identifies limits where duties remain unconditional.

Lister applies this framework to debates over incentives, unconditional basic income, intergenerational justice, and global justice, showing how reciprocity clarifies puzzling aspects of Rawlsian theory and rehabilitates reciprocity for egalitarianism without making justice undemanding.