Economic Justice

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

On the Justice of Earnings: A New Specification of the Justice Evaluation Function

Abstract: This paper describes a new specification of the justice evaluation function. It predicts precisely and unambiguously the kind of injustice (i.e., underreward or overreward) and the degree of injustice associated with given departures from perfect justice. The new justice evaluation function was inducted from extensive analyses of survey data on the perceived justice or injustice of earnings. It is directly generalizable to cover all socially distributed goods, and hence I propose it as a candidate for a universal Law of Justice Evaluation in distributional matters. Finally, I suggest that such a Law of Justice Evaluation performs one of the three tasks essential to a scientific theory of distributive justice.

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

Abstract: Tables and Figure Preface Introduction:Race Preferences and Race Privileges 1. Of Fish and Water: Perspectives on Racism and Privilege 2. The Bankruptcy of Virtuous Markets: Racial Inequality, Poverty, and "Individual Failure" 3. Keeping Blacks in Their Place: Race, Education, and Testing 4. Been in the Pen So Long: Race, Crime, and Justice 5. Civil Rights and Racial Equality: Employment Discrimination Law, Affirmative Action, and Quotas 6. Color-Blindness as Color Consciousness: Voting Rights and Political Equality Conclusion: Facing Up to Race Notes Bibliography About the Authors Index

Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World

Abstract: In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly unjust. Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World starts off arguing that the dissemination of competence in a common lingua franca is a process to be welcomed and accelerated, most fundamentally because it provides the struggle for greater justice in Europe and in the world with an essential weapon: a cheap medium of communication and of mobilization. However, the resulting linguistic situation can plausibly be regarded as unjust in three distinct senses. Firstly, the adoption of one natural language as the lingua franca implies that its native speakers are getting a free ride by benefiting costlessly from the learning effort of others. Secondly, they gain greater opportunities as a result of competence in their native language becoming a more valuable asset. And thirdly the privilege systematically given to one language fails to show equal respect for the various languages with which different portions of the population concerned identify. Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World spells out the corresponding interpretations of linguistic justice as cooperative justice, distributive justice and parity of esteem, respectively. And it discusses systematically a wide range of policies that might help achieve linguistic justice in these three senses, from a linguistic tax on Anglophone countries to the banning of dubbing or the linguistic territoriality principle. Against this background, the book argues that linguistic diversity is not valuable in itself but it will nonetheless need to be protected as a by-product of the pursuit of linguistic diversity as parity of esteem.

Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences

Abstract: Introduction Evaluation in Advanced Capitalist Society Trends Evaluation as an Institution and Profession Government and Evaluation Higher Education An Example Evaluation as a Discipline The Legacy of US Social Science Social Justice Methodology and Justice Evaluation in Multicultural Societies Professional Ethics

The Justice Motive: Where Social Psychologists Found It, How they Lost It, and Why They May Not Find It Again:

Abstract: Beginning shortly after the 2nd World War, 3 lines of research associated with relative deprivation, equity theory, and just world contributed to the description of the influence of the justice motive in people's lives. By the late 1960s, these converging lines of research had documented the importance of people's desire for justice; nevertheless, contemporary social psychologists typically portray this justice-driven motivation as simply a manifestation of self-interest. The explanation for this failure to recognize a distinct and important justice motive points to the widespread reliance on research methods that elicit the participant's thoughtfully constructed narratives or role-playing responses. According to recent theoretical advances, these methods generate responses that reflect normative expectations of rational self-interest, and fail to capture the important effects of the emotionally generated imperatives of the justice motive.