Macrojustice : the political economy of fairness / Serge-Christophe Kolm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolm, Serge-Christophe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Distributive justice.

Income distribution.

Wealth.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

vi, 537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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." This also amounts to general balanced reciprocity, where each individual yields to each other the proceeds of the same 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.

Contents:

Presentation 1

Part 1 Bases: Consensus, Freedoms, and Capacities

1 Macrojustice: An overview of its place, method, structure, and result 9

2 Freedom

2 Social freedom 40

3 The liberal theory 53

4 Free and equal in rights 70

6 Capacities 90

Part 2 Overall Distributive Justice: Elie (Equal Labour Income Equalization)

7 Equal labour income equalization: General presentation 111

8 Models of labour and productivity 135

9 Equal duration income equalization 144

11 Income justice 185

12 General equal labour income equalization: The model 207

13 Involuntary unemployment 212

Part 3 Comparisons with Policies and Philosophies

14 Comparisons: General issues 221

15 Comparison with distributive schemes 233

16 Comparison with philosophies 244

Part 4 The Degree of Community, Equality, Reciprocity, and Solidarity

17 The degree of redistribution, solidarity, community, and reciprocity 279

18 Impartiality, consensus, and information 298

19 Disinterested judgments and the moral surplus 304

20 Communication and dialog 324

21 Impartialization to consensus 336

Part 5 Comparison with Economics' Social Ethics

22 Related economic values 363

23 The structure and substance of distributive principles 389

24 Freedom and happiness 417

25 Freedoms, responsibility, desert, merit, equality of opportunity, capacities, capabilities, basic needs 438

26 The theory of equivalence 463.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-523) and index.

ISBN:

0521835038

OCLC:

52721283

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