Distributive Justice And Inequality

Author : Julian Lamont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351943437

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Distributive Justice by Julian Lamont Pdf

A central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society. Philosophers contribute to distributive justice debates by providing arguments for principles to guide and evaluate the allocation of economic goods and to guide the design of institutions to achieve more just distributions. This volume includes both seminal and recent work by philosophers, covering a range of representative positions, including libertarian, egalitarian, desert, and welfare theorists. The introduction to the volume and the selections themselves are designed to allow students and professionals to see some of the most influential pieces that have shaped the field, as well as some key critics of these positions. The articles intersect in such a way as to develop an appreciation of the types of theories and the central issues addressed by theories of distributive justice. Furthermore, the choice of authors in this collection reflects an appreciation of the influence of institutions in general, markets in particular, and even luck on the distribution of economic goods.

Author : Wulf Gaertner,Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642738166

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Distributive Justice and Inequality by Wulf Gaertner,Prasanta K. Pattanaik Pdf

From May 20 to May 24, 1986 a conference on distributive justice and in equality was held at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wis senschaftskolleg zu Berlin). More than thirty scholars participated in this conference. The topics of the presentations ranged from ethics, welfare economics and social choice theory to characterizations of inequality meas ures and redistributive taxation schemes. This book contains a selection of the papers given at the conference. This collection of articles also appeared as issues 2 and 3 of volume 5 of Social Choice and Welfare. In the first paper P. Suppes argues for a pluralistic concept of equity. For too long the emphasis has been on income distribution but there are other characteristics which are important when one talks about equity. Suppes suggests that it would be desirable to have Lorenz curves for a variety of fea tures of societies, such as education, health and housing. P. Dasgupta studies the quality of lives in terms of an index of living stand ards. One has to distinguish between "same number choices" (the number of lives is given) and "different numbers choices" (problem of optimum popUlation). The author argues that in the latter case the anonymity (or sym metry) axiom cannot be readily defended. Once it is dropped, however, an incoherence in the moral ordering of possible worlds arises. The moral basis for different numbers choices becomes generation-dependent, an overall moral ordering of possible worlds no longer exists.

Author : Kenneth Kipnis,Diana T. Meyers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847673855

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Economic Justice by Kenneth Kipnis,Diana T. Meyers Pdf

Twenty distinguished philosophers and social theorists have contributed original papers to this stimulating investigation into the nature of the economically just society. Collectively, and in a remarkably coherent fashion, these papers set out the problems of contemporary social theory within the context of the distributive justice vs. property rights debate initiated by the works of John Rawls and Robert Nozick.

Author : Janine Brodie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442634084

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Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada by Janine Brodie Pdf

"This edited collection discusses the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada. The book contains 12 essays written by leading scholars in the field and includes chapters on the welfare state, social activism, economic inequality, the labour market, racial justice, LGBT rights, and colonialism."--

Author : John RAWLS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042605

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A Theory of Justice by John RAWLS Pdf

Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Author : Joseph de la Torre Dwyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030211264

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Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality by Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Pdf

This book develops a novel approach to distributive justice by building a theory based on a concept of desert. As a work of applied political theory, it presents a simple but powerful theoretical argument and a detailed proposal to eliminate unmerited inequality, poverty, and economic immobility, speaking to the underlying moral principles of both progressives who already support egalitarian measures and also conservatives who have previously rejected egalitarianism on the grounds of individual freedom, personal responsibility, hard work, or economic efficiency. By using an agnostic, flexible, data-driven approach to isolate luck and ultimately measure desert, this proposal makes equal opportunity initiatives both more accurate and effective as it adapts to a changing economy. It grants to each individual the freedom to genuinely choose their place in the distribution. It provides two policy variations that are perfectly economically efficient, and two others that are conditionally so. It straightforwardly aligns outcomes with widely shared, fundamental moral intuitions. Lastly, it demonstrates much of the above by modeling four policy variations using 40 years of survey data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Author : Toril Aalberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047402060

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Achieving Justice by Toril Aalberg Pdf

This book gives a systematic and extensive comparative analysis of public beliefs about social justice. Contrary to previous studies it attempts to link public opinion to the philosophical debate on distributive justice, but more importantly it connects the different opinion surveys with the current economic and political situation in the various countries. What can explain the cross-national variations, and if opinions do change over time, why is this so? Are people’s beliefs influenced by existing welfare practices in the country? Do different policy regimes trigger different pattern of belief among the members of society? This book should be of interest to researchers and students both in the field of Comparative Opinion Studies, but also those interested in the relationship between public opinion and the political elite.

Author : Frank S. Lucash
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501738753

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Justice and Equality Here and Now by Frank S. Lucash Pdf

Eight outstanding scholars contribute to this collection original essays on the philosophical foundations and political implications of egalitarian justice. The positions represented span the political spectrum, and the debate moves back and forth between the theoretical and the practical. Expressing often radically different political points of view, the contributors discuss such topics as individual rights, human good, mutual indebtedness, sexual relations, the family, individual desert, private property, self-ownership, and the welfare state.

Author : Denise Celentano,Luigi Caranti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000206319

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Paradigms of Justice by Denise Celentano,Luigi Caranti Pdf

This book explores the relation between redistribution and recognition, two key paradigms in the contemporary discourse on justice. Combining insights from the traditions of critical social theory and analytical political philosophy, the volume offers a multifaceted exploration of this incredibly inspiring conceptual couple from a plurality of perspectives. The chapters engage with concepts such as universal basic income, property-owning democracy, poverty, equality, self-respect, pluralism, care, and work, all of which have an impact on individuals’ recognition as well as on distributive policies. An important contribution to the field of political and social philosophy, the volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of politics, law, human rights, economics, social justice, as well as policymakers.

Author : Eric W Sager
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781039105577

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The Professor and the Plumber by Eric W Sager Pdf

Two cousins meet for dinner. Who are they? Why is a plumber arguing with a professor? They begin to discuss one of the great problems of our time - inequality. Can they find solutions? Can they agree on the meaning of equality? Follow their conversation to its powerful conclusion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1071921247

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˜Theœ "inequality" controversy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wulf Gaertner,Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642738176

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Distributive Justice and Inequality by Wulf Gaertner,Prasanta K. Pattanaik Pdf

Author : Andrés Solimano,Eduardo Aninat,Nancy Birdsall
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472110861

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Distributive Justice and Economic Development by Andrés Solimano,Eduardo Aninat,Nancy Birdsall Pdf

Examines the growth-equity relationship in developing countries

Author : Daniel Dorling
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847427205

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Injustice by Daniel Dorling Pdf

Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? In the new paperback edition of this timely book, Daniel Dorling, a leading social commentator and academic, claims that in rich countries lnequality is no longer caused by not having enough resources to share, but by unrecognised and unacknowledged beliefs which actually propagate it. Based on significant research across a range of fields, Dorling argues that, as the five social evils identified by Beveridge at the dawn of the British welfare state (ignorance, want, idleness, squalor and disease) are gradually being eradicated, they are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice, that: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and despair is inevitable. In an informal yet authoritative style, Dorling examines who is most harmed by these injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit. With a new Foreword by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, authors of The Spirit Level, and a new Afterword by the author examining developments during 2010, this is hard-hitting and uncompromising in its call to action and continues to make essential reading for everyone concerned with social justice. Book jacket.

Author : Samuel Fleischacker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674263468

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A Short History of Distributive Justice by Samuel Fleischacker Pdf

“A fascinating account of the development of our contemporary notion of distributive justice.” (Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, author of Welfare and Rational Care) Distributive justice in its modern sense calls on the state to guarantee that everyone is supplied with a certain level of material means. Samuel Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries. Earlier notions of justice, including Aristotle's, were concerned with the distribution of political office, not of property. It was only in the eighteenth century, in the work of philosophers such as Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant, that justice began to be applied to the problem of poverty. To attribute a longer pedigree to distributive justice is to fail to distinguish between justice and charity. Fleischacker explains how confusing these principles has created misconceptions about the historical development of the welfare state. By examining major writings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, Fleischacker shows how we arrived at the contemporary meaning of distributive justice. “Engaging and very readable . . . This is a marvelous book which should be read by all social workers.” —Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare “An important book. . . . Highly original and interesting.” —Daniel Brudney, University of Chicago, author of Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy “A succinct, coherent, and wide-ranging history of distributive justice that will be a boon for teachers and students.” —Ross Harrison, University of Cambridge, author of Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece