Economic Justice

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

The Revisionist Difference Principle

Abstract: John Rawls's famous difference principle is capable of at least four distinct statements, each of which occurs in A Theory of Justice. According to what I shall term the Crude Principle it is a necessary and sufficient condition for the justice of an institutional scheme which expands social and economic inequality that, subject to the satisfaction of more weighty principles, it increases the level of advantage of the least advantaged. Expressing this principle Rawls writes that, Assuming the framework of institutions required by equal liberty and fair equality of opportunity, the higher expectations of those better situated are just if and only if they work as part of a scheme which improves the expectations of the least advantaged members of society. The intuitive idea is that the social order is not to establish and secure the more attractive prospects of those better off unless doing so is to the advantage of those less fortunate.

Family justice and social justice

Abstract: L'A. etudie la critique feministe de certains points developpes dans le second ouvrage de J. Rawls intitule «Political Liberalism», a savoir l'affirmation selon laquelle la justice familiale est une condition necessaire a la justice sociale. S. M. Okin montre que c'est la distinction entre le politique et le non-politique qui pose probleme

Bordered Penality: Precarious Membership and Abnormal Justice

Abstract: The article brings to attention, and explores, the transformations of criminal justice related to the control of unwanted mobility, looking in particular at recent Norwegian developments. It maps a gradual emergence of a differentiated, two-tier approach to criminal justice and a more exclusionary penal culture directed at non-citizens. The article suggests that the absence of formal membership is the essential factor contributing towards shifting the nature of penal intervention from reintegration into the society towards deportation and territorial exclusion, and towards the development of a particular form of penality, termed hereby bordered penality. The lack of formal citizenship status also crucially affects the procedural and substantive standards of justice afforded to non-members. While these developments are not confined to Norway alone, they cast doubt on the non-punitive image that is widely attributed to Scandinavian countries, and present a set of conceptual, epistemological and normative challenges for criminal justice in a rapidly globalizing world.

Children, Citizenship and Environment: Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World

Abstract: 1. Ecology and Democracy as if Children Mattered 2. Neoliberalism and Children's Everyday Citizenship: Bowling with a Sponsor 3. Growing Greener Citizens: FEARS, SMART or SEEDs Experiences? 4. Social Agency: Learning How to Make a Difference With Others 5. Environmental Education: Growing Up on Google Earth 6. Embedded Justice: Rethinking Eco-Social Responsibility 7. Decentred Deliberation: Storytelling and Democratic Listening 8. The Social Handprint