Economic Justice Philosophical and Legal Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stacy, Helen M. (Editor), Lee, Win-Chiat. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice ; 4
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Philosophy, modern.; Philosophy of law.; Political science > Philosophy.; Social policy.; Philosophy.; Philosophy of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Social Policy.; Political Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4905-4

The economic impact of the U. S. financial market meltdown of 2008 has been devastating both in the U. S. and worldwide. One consequence of this crisis is the widening gap between rich and poor. With little end in sight to global economic woes, it has never been more urgent to examine and re-examine...

Table of Contents:

• About the authors
• Part I:� 18th Century Thinking and Current Issues in Economic Justice
• Some Remarks on Hume's Account of Property Including One Cheer for the Communist Manifesto; Charles Landesman
• Rousseau on Poverty; Sally J. Scholz
• Bentham and Payday Lenders; David Jackson
• Part II: Economic Justice in North America
• Justice and Correctional Health Services; Kenneth Kipnis
• Economic Justice and Freedom of Conscience; Emily R. Gill
• Economic Justice in the Oikos: Freedom and Equality in Family Law; Christopher Berry Gray
• Part III: Private Property, Free Market and Economic Justice
• Rights and Economic Justice in Nozick's Theory; Rex Martin
• Poverty, Markets, Justice: Why the Market is the Only Cure for Poverty ; Jan Narveson
• Fatal Flaws in the Libertarian Conception of the Market Schonsheck
• Adam Smiths Order for Distributing the Wealth of Nations; Wade Robison
• Part IV Economic Justice and Distribution
• Economic Inequality and Global Justice;� Ann E. Cudd
• Property, Taxes and�Distribution; Bill Nelson
• Monetary Incentives, Economic Inequality, and Economic Justice; Alistair Macleod
• Part V: International Economic Justice
• How Demanding is the Duty of Assistance?; Mark Navin
• �World Bank Rules for Aid Allocation: New Institutional Economics or Moral Hazard?; Nicole Hassan.