Screen LibraryEconomic 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...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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AMINTAPHIL
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4905-4 |
| Summary: |
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 nor |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
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9789400749054 (electronic bk.) 9400749058 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | K487 |
| CLC: | D90-056 |
| Contents: |
18th Century Thinking and Current Issues in Economic Justice -- Some Remarks on Hume's Account of Property Including One Cheer for the Communist Manifesto / Rousseau on Poverty / Bentham and Payday Lenders / Economic Justice in North America -- Justice and Correctional Health Services / Economic Justice and Freedom of Conscience / Economic Justice in the Oikos: Freedom and Equality in Family Law / Private Property, Free Market and Economic Justice -- Rights and Economic Justice in Nozick's Theory / Poverty, Markets, Justice: Why the Market Is the Only Cure for Poverty / Fatal Flaws in the Libertarian Conception of the Market / Adam Smith's Order for Distributing the Wealth of Nations / Economic Justice and Distribution -- Economic Inequality and Global Justice / Property, Taxes and Distribution / Monetary Incentives, Economic Inequality, and Economic Justice / International Economic Justice -- How Demanding Is the Duty of Assistance? / World Bank Rules for Aid Allocation: New Institutional Economics or Moral Hazard? / |