What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy.
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Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justice PART I: THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY Microelectronics and Market Efficiency Requisite Agility PART II: EFFICIENCY AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Efficiency Matters Even More in the Information Age: Considering the Distributive Dimension of Price PART III: NEED AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Need Satisfaction as a Necessary Condition of Efficiency Broader Base for Market Initiative, Creativity, and Stability PART IV: ENTITLEMENT AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Ownership Externalities Summary and Conclusions: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge EconomyAbout the author
ALBINO BARRERAis Professor of Economics and Humanities at Providence College, USA.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 286 ● ISBN 9780230609761 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2306956 ● Copy protection Social DRM