Ebook: Economic Justice: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives

The economic impact of the U. S. financial market meltdown of 2008 has been devastating both in the U. S. and worldwide. One consequence of this crisis is the widening gap between rich and poor. With little end in sight to global economic woes, it has never been more urgent to examine and re-examine the values and ideals that animate policy about the market, the workplace, and formal and informal economic institutions at the level of the nation state and internationally. Re-entering existing debates and provoking new ones about economic justice, this volume makes a timely contribution to a normative assessment of our economic values and the institutions that active those norms. Topics covered by this volumes essays range from specific or relatively small-scale problems such as payday lending and prisoners’ access to adequate healthcare; to large-scale such as global poverty, the free market and international aid. Economic Justice will stimulate and provoke philosophers, policy makers, the engaged readers who and better outcomes from financial institutions and more effect distribution of economic goods.

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The economic impact of the U. S. financial market meltdown of 2008 has been devastating both in the U. S. and worldwide. One consequence of this crisis is the widening gap between rich and poor. With little end in sight to global economic woes, it has never been more urgent to examine and re-examine the values and ideals that animate policy about the market, the workplace, and formal and informal economic institutions at the level of the nation state and internationally. Re-entering existing debates and provoking new ones about economic justice, this volume makes a timely contribution to a normative assessment of our economic values and the institutions that active those norms. Topics covered by this volumes essays range from specific or relatively small-scale problems such as payday lending and prisoners’ access to adequate healthcare; to large-scale such as global poverty, the free market and international aid. Economic Justice will stimulate and provoke philosophers, policy makers and the engaged readers who hope for better outcomes from financial institutions and improvements in the distribution of economic goods."

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The economic impact of the U. S. financial market meltdown of 2008 has been devastating both in the U. S. and worldwide. One consequence of this crisis is the widening gap between rich and poor. With little end in sight to global economic woes, it has never been more urgent to examine and re-examine the values and ideals that animate policy about the market, the workplace, and formal and informal economic institutions at the level of the nation state and internationally. Re-entering existing debates and provoking new ones about economic justice, this volume makes a timely contribution to a normative assessment of our economic values and the institutions that active those norms. Topics covered by this volumes essays range from specific or relatively small-scale problems such as payday lending and prisoners’ access to adequate healthcare; to large-scale such as global poverty, the free market and international aid. Economic Justice will stimulate and provoke philosophers, policy makers and the engaged readers who hope for better outcomes from financial institutions and improvements in the distribution of economic goods."

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Some Remarks on Hume’s Account of Property Including One Cheer for the Communist Manifesto....Pages 3-11
Rousseau on Poverty....Pages 13-28
Bentham and Payday Lenders....Pages 29-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Justice and Correctional Health Services....Pages 37-48
Economic Justice and Freedom of Conscience....Pages 49-62
Economic Justice in the Oikos: Freedom and Equality in Family Law....Pages 63-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Rights and Economic Justice in Nozick’s Theory....Pages 77-92
Poverty, Markets, Justice: Why the Market Is the Only Cure for Poverty....Pages 93-108
Fatal Flaws in the Libertarian Conception of the Market....Pages 109-137
Adam Smith’s Order for Distributing the Wealth of Nations....Pages 139-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Economic Inequality and Global Justice....Pages 159-172
Property, Taxes and Distribution....Pages 173-185
Monetary Incentives, Economic Inequality, and Economic Justice....Pages 187-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
How Demanding Is the Duty of Assistance?....Pages 205-220
World Bank Rules for Aid Allocation: New Institutional Economics or Moral Hazard?....Pages 221-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-245