Economic Justice

About: Economic Justice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41600 publications have been published within this topic receiving 661535 citations.

Liberty and Self-Respect

Abstract: An original philosophical position is often most difficult to understand just where it is most important that it be understood. This is certainly the case with "The Grounds for the Priority of Liberty" in John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. 1 Nothing is more important in Rawlsian theory than the priority of liberty, although the difference principle is equally important: "The force of justice as fairness would appear to arise from two things: the requirement that all inequalities be justified to the least advantaged, and the priority of liberty" (250). Rawls's inference to the priority of liberty is the final, carefully designed logical bridge for the long train of reasoning to the ordered pair of principles of justice. And this highly compressed argument contains in microcosm all the most important themes of justice as fairness. But the logical structure of this argument is difficult to separate from the strands of other arguments on other fronts, all of which Rawls conducts simultaneously in the densely written pages of this critical section 82 of his book. So it may be of some use to try to lay out, as plainly as possible, the five premises from which Rawls hopes finally to deduce the priority of liberty.2 Before we examine the argument for the thesis, we might recall the basic meaning of the thesis itself.3

Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism

Abstract: 1 Introduction: Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy - Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock, and David Eng Part One: Ethical Foundations 2 Behavioral Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy: Paving the road to freedom or serfdom? - Morris Altman 3 Go and Do Likewise: The parable of the Good Samaritan and the challenge of public ethics - Chris Marshall 4 Who Then Is My Neighbor? Ethical decision making around our international obligations - contribution of human rights theory and practice - Margaret Bedggood 5 Justice as Collective Capability - Karen Baehler 6 Considerations of Distributive Justice in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation - Frieder Lempp, Lucas Kengmana, and Jonathan Boston Part Two: Ethics and Policy Making 7 Beyond Serving a Purpose: Additional ethical focuses for public policy agents - Vanessa Scholes 8 Ethics of Not-Very-Targeted Government Interventions - TM Wilkinson 9 Making Fair Funding Decisions for High-Cost Health Care: The case of Herceptin in New Zealand - Elizabeth Fenton 10 Can Policy Be Ethical Without Consumer Input?- Hilary Stace and Martin Sullivan Part Three: Sustainability and Progress 11 The Ethics of a Sustainable Economy: Implications for public policy - Robert Howell and Wayne Cartwright 12 Measuring New Zealand's Progress Using a Sustainable Development Approach - Rachael Milicich 13 Cooperative Environmental Management: Taking care of New Zealand's unique natural resources in more effective ways - Karlheinz Knickel, Guy Salmon, and Susanne von Muenchhausen 14 Equity and Sustainable Development - Paul Dalziel and Caroline Saunders 15 Rethinking Progress: Evaluation of the Wellington Regional Genuine Progress Index - Aaron Packard and Ralph Chapman 16 Recent Challenges to the Ethics Underlying Official Statistics in New Zealand - Sharleen Forbes, Vince Galvin, Andrew Hunter, Paul Maxwell, and Whetu Wereta

Predatory Pricing : Strategic Theory and Legal Policy

Abstract: We have received valuable comments from legal workshop participants at Boston University Law School, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School; and from economic workshop participants at the Antitrust Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics (ECARE), European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory at Gerzensee, N.Y.U. School of Management, New Zealand Institute for Antitrust Law and Economics, Princeton University, and Tilburg University Centre for Economic Research. We have also received insightful comments from many individuals, including Lucien Bebchuk,, Mathias Dewatripont, Einer Elhauge, Vic Khanna, Louis Kaplow, Alvin Klevorick, Barry Nalebuff, Jim Meeks, Patrick Rey, Alan Schwartz, Marius Schwartz, Dan Vincent, and Bobby Willig. We thank LeeAnne Baker, Jeremy Bartell, Gretchen Elizabeth Joyce and Chad Porter for dedicated and resourceful research assistance. PREDATORY PRICING:

The Place of Self‐Respect in a Theory of Justice

Abstract: This essay provides a critical examination of Rawls' (and Rawlsians') conception of self‐respect, the social bases of self‐respect, and the normative justification of equality in the social bases of self‐respect. I defend a rival account of these notions and the normative ideals at stake in political liberalism and a theory of social justice. I make the following arguments: (1) I argue that it is unreasonable to take self‐respect to be a primary social good, as Rawls and his interpreters characterize it; (2) secondly, drawing on a distinction made by Darwall, I argue that recognition respect provides a far more suitable notion of respect for a theory of justice than Rawls' notion of appraisal respect; (3) thirdly, I argue that Rawls' treatment of self‐respect and the social bases of self‐respect as empirical conceptions should be rejected in favor of normative notions of a reasonable or justified self‐respect and equality in reasonable social bases of self‐respect; (4) I argue that Rawls' notions of polit...