Foundations of Economic Justice
Published on 27. July 1989
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-631-16748-8 (ISBN)
Description
The notion of economic justice and the property rights of producers is fundamental to all economic, legal and political systems. Morris Silver's book presents a critical survey of thought in this area - including Rawls, Nozick and Buchanan - to develop a model of economic justice stressing the natural rights of producers to the objects of the production. The central argument of the book is that economic justice has an empirically determinate objective basis in individuals' feelings but that these feelings should not be identified with preferences, utility or interest. They are instead a "moral emotion" rooted in human nature. The author extends this producer ethic to the complexities of modern exchange economies and argues that exchange itself is part of the production process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 figure, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-16748-8 (9780631167488)
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Content
Part 1 Property Rights, Object Powers and the Problem of Theft: Property Rights and Property Defined; Property Rights Triggers or Elicitors; Scope of Property Rights; Property Rights Versus Object Powers; Theft Defined and Illustrated. Part 2 Production and Property Rights: Production and Property Feelings; Natural Objects and Productive Activity; Settlers and Indians in New England - A Case Study; Locke's Mixing Methaphor and Proviso; Social Contracts and natural Objects. Part 3 Exchange as Production: Nozick and Durkheim on Exchange; Productive Activity and Exchange; Exchange as Production - The Evidence of Language and Ritual; Exchange as Production - Ethnographic Evidence; Exchange as Production - The Legal Treatment of Promises; Antiquity of Exchange. Part 4 Alleged Limits on the Right to Property: Desert and Productive Activity; What Does Society Deserve?; Harms and Rights; Private Property Versus Personal Property; Employment Discrimination; Illicit Wealth and Original Sin; Gifts and Bequests. Part 5 Producers Versus Thieves: Right Makes Might; Ubiquity of the Property Institution; Employer as Thief. Part 6 Biology, Ethology, and Property: Evolution of Property Feelings; Property-Like Behaviour Among Nonhuman Animals; Animal Kingdom and Stateless Society; Human Nature and Morality; Moral and Immoral Competition. Part 7 A Reconsideration of Natural Rights Theory: Producer's Right as Natural Right; Universalizability and Contractarianism; An Objection to Ethical Naturalism - The Open Question. Part 8 Alternative Economic Justice Rules: Types of Rules; Utilitarian Justice; Wealth Maximization Justice; Fairness or Envy-Free Justice; Maximin Justice. Part 9 Alternative Economic Justice Rules (Concluded): Blame-Freeness Catastrophic Allocations. Appendix: Money and Happiness.