What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? Globalization and Economic Ethics maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact,
Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy
โ Scribed by Albino Barrera (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 290
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justice....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Microelectronics and Market Efficiency....Pages 19-47
Requisite Agility....Pages 49-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Efficiency Matters Even More in the Information Age: Considering the Allocative Dimension of Price....Pages 87-117
Preconditions and Limitations of Efficiency: Considering the Distributive Dimension of Price....Pages 119-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Need Satisfaction as a Necessary Condition of Efficiency....Pages 145-170
Broader Base for Market Initiative, Creativity, and Stability....Pages 171-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Ownership Externalities and the Market as a Public Good....Pages 189-208
Summary and Conclusions: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy....Pages 209-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-286
โฆ Subjects
Political Economy; International Economics; Sales/Distribution; Globalization; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory
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