Self-Seeking and the Pursuit of Justice

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-34280-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1997, this volume delves into the most influential theories of economic justice, which ground themselves in utilitarian or related contractarian ideas about the self. These ideas take self-interest to be transparent and unproblematic. Favoured assumptions about the self also make scarcity the primary reality with which economic justice must deal. Much is lost in consideration of the justness of economic arrangements when we take the wants and interests of the self for granted in this way, and treat scarcity as a premise. In this book the author places the discussion of economic justice on a sounder foundation as regards the nature and ends of the self. The book begins with a discussion of the self as a structure, and proceeds to consider aspects of self-interest, public ends, economic welfare, needs and wants, the limits of the market, economic democracy, global inequality, and justice as the end of development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, David P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Justice and Interests. 2. Economic Justice. 3. Global Justice. 4. Justice and Development.

Über Autor(innen)

David P. Levine