Economic Justice and Natural Law [Paperback]

Gary Chartier elaborates a version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition.Natural law emphasizes the diverse aspects of human welfare and reasonable ways of realizing those aspects. Gary Chartier spells out a version of the theory, and applies it to topics including property, work, and economic responsibilities to others.Natural law emphasizes the diverse aspects of human welfare and reasonable ways of realizing those aspects. Gary Chartier spells out a version of the theory, and applies it to topics including property, work, and economic responsibilities to others.Gary Chartier elaborates a particular version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition, explaining how it is relevant to economic issues and developing natural law accounts of property, work, and economic security. He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law theory as a basis for staking positions on a number of contested issues related to economic life and highlighting the potentially progressive and emancipatory dimension of natural law theory.Introduction; 1. Foundations: property; 2. Foundations: distribution; 3. Foundations: work; 4. Remedies: property; 5. Remedies: distribution; 6. Remedies: work; Conclusion.'The revival of natural law theory with respect to foundational issues in ethics and politics has been matched stride for stride with an application of that view to controversial issues of public morality - abortion, euthanasia, stem-cell research, homosexual conduct, and so forth. What we had not yet seen is anything like a systematic account of how the natural law view should be brought to bear on central issues of economic justice. But we now have Gary Chartier's Economic Justice and Natural Law, a book exhibiting the dual virtues of a subtle understanding of natural law ethics with a richly detailed awareness of the economic matters about which the natural law should have something to slÓf