Brad McHose got his Ph.D. at UCLA and works on contemporary issues in distributive justice. In his dissertation, Egalitarianism, Permissible Partiality and Decency, he examines the clash between arguments for egalitarian norms and the widespread belief that, barring cases of dire need, people are generally not morally responsible for promoting other persons interests.

Brad is currently working on an argument according to which decency generally requires that well off persons, when making mutually advantageous exchanges involving the working poor, cede the bulk of the surplus benefits of such exchanges to the poor, even if they are not in dire need.