Macrojustice: The Political Economy of Fairness
Cambridge University Press, 2/17/2005
EAN 9780521835039, ISBN10: 0521835038
Hardcover, 544 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm
Language: English
The main features of the just society, as they would be chosen by the unanimous, impartial, and fully informed judgment of its members, present a remarkable and simple meaningful structure. In this society, individuals' freedom is fully respected, and overall redistribution amounts to an equal sharing of individuals' different earnings obtained by the same limited 'equalization labour'. The concept of equalization labour is a measure of the degree of community, solidarity, reciprocity, redistribution, and equalization of the society under consideration. It is determined by a number of methods presented in this study, which also emphasizes the rationality, meanings, properties, and ways of practical implementation of this optimum distribution. This result is compared with the various distributive principles found in practice and in political, philosophical, and economic thinking, with the conclusion that most have their proper specific scope of application. The analytical presentation of the social ethics of economics is particularly enlightening.
Part I. Bases
Consensus, Freedoms and Capacities
1. Macrojustice
an overview of its place, method, structure and result
2. Social freedom
3. The liberal theory
4. Free and equal in rights
5. Resources
6. Capacities
Part II. Overall Distributive Justice
ELIE (Equal Labour Income Equalization)
7. Equal labour income equalization
general presentation
8. Models of labour and productivity
9. Equal duration income equalization
10. Information
11. Income justice
12. General equal labour income equalization
the model
13. Involuntary unemployment
Part III. Comparisons with Policies and Philosophies
14. Comparisons
general issues
15. Comparison with distributive schemes
16. Comparison with philosophies
Part IV. The Degree of Community, Equality, Reciprocity, and Solidarity
17. The degree of redistribution, solidarity, community, and reciprocity
18. Impartiality, consensus, and information
19. Disinterested judgments and the moral surplus
20. Communication and dialogue
21. Impartialization and consensus
Part V. Comparison with Economics' Social Ethics
22. Related economic values
23. The structure and substance of distributive principles
24. Happiness and freedom
25. Freedoms, responsibility, desert, merit, equality of opportunity, capacities, capabilities, basic needs
26. The theory of equivalence
27. Conclusion.