Economic Justice Philosophical and Legal Perspectives [Paperback]

The economic impact of the U. S. financial market meltdown of 2008 has been devastating both in the U. S. and worldwide. One consequence of this crisis is the widening gap between rich and poor. With little end in sight to global economic woes, it has never been more urgent to examine and re-examine the values and ideals that animate policy about the market, the workplace, and formal and informal economic institutions at the level of the nation state and internationally.? Re-entering existing debates and provoking new ones about economic justice, this volume makes a timely contribution to a normative assessment of our economic values and the institutions that active those norms.? Topics covered by this volumes essays range from specific or relatively small-scale problems such as payday lending and prisoners access to adequate healthcare; to large-scale such as global poverty, the free market and international aid. Economic Justice will stimulate and provoke philosophers, policy makers, the engaged readers who and better outcomes from financial institutions and more effect distribution of economic goods.

Exploring a pressing issue in the context of contemporary economic woes, this volume combines philosophy and jurisprudence to develop new theories of economic justice that reexamine the commonly held values informing policies on the market and the workplace.

About the authors.- Part I:? 18th Century Thinking and Current Issues in Economic Justice.- Some Remarks on Hume's Account of Property Including One Cheer for the Communist Manifesto; Charles Landesman.- Rousseau on Poverty; Sally J. Scholz.- Bentham and Payday Lenders; David Jackson.- Part II: Economic Justice in North America.- Justice and Correctional Health Services; Kenneth Kipnis.- Economic Justice and Freedom of Conscience; Emily R. Gill.- Economic Justice in the Oikos: Freedom and Equality in Family Law; Christopher Berry Gray.- Part III: Private Property, FrlS/