Just Price Theory

A Reassessment
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-6354-6
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

This book presents an original theory of the just price, and it is a welcome addition to scholarship on a radically underdeveloped field.

This work reassesses the age-old idea that there is a just price of things, one that goes beyond the Scholastic tradition of the just price and its exclusive concern with commutative justice. There is more to just price theory than the concern for keeping equality of value between goods exchanged. Modern concerns over efficiency, autonomy, and distributive justice, can also find a place within a theory of the just price.

The book:

- Presents a new approach to just price theory through a broad analysis of different values and the incorporation of those conceptions into a wider normative framework
- Argues that these different values ground varied conceptions of the just price, and
- Promotes a virtue-based approach to price justification as an adequate framework for meeting the challenges that stem from each conception

Perfect for scholars and students in the fields of jurisprudence, philosophy of private law, contract law, and political theory, this book makes a significant contribution to legal theory and the emerging field of the philosophy of economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reyes, Joaquín

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part One: Conceptions of the Just Price
1. Why Just Prices Matter
2. Addressing Scepticism
3. Justifying Prices

Part Two: A Virtue-Based Approach to Price Justification
4. Price, Virtue, and Institutions
5. Distributive Justice, Efficiency, and the Price System
6. Autonomy, Commutative Justice, and Contractual Prices
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Reyes, Joaquín
Joaquín Reyes is an academic scholar at Finis Terrae University, Chile.

Joaquín Reyes is Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK.