Democratic Distributive Justice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521790338
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Macroeconomics; Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Income distribution; Economic Conditions; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Economics - Theory; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science : Economic Conditions; Political Science : Political Ideologies - Democracy; Distributive justice; History & Theory - General; Democracy
First sentence: Social aspects of the person should have a salience that they are not usually accorded in considerations of relative distribution.
Description: "By exploring the integral relationship between democracy and economic justice, Democratic Distributive Justice seeks to explain how democratic countries with market systems should deal with the problem of high levels of income inequality. The book acts as a guide for dealing with this issue by providing an interdisciplinary approach that combines political, economic, and legal theory. The book also analyzes the nature of economic society and puts forth a new understanding of the agents and considerations bearing upon the ethics of relative pay, such as the nature of individual contributions and the extent of community in capital-based market systems.

Economic justice is then integrated with democratic theory, yielding what Ross Zucker calls "democratic distributive justice." While prevailing theory defines democracy in terms of the electoral mechanism, the author holds that the principles of distribution form part of the very definition of democracy, which makes just distribution a requirement of democratic government."--Jacket.