Democratic Distributive Justice [Paperback]

Explains how democratic countries with market systems should deal with high levels of income-inequality.By exploring the integral relationship between democracy and economic justice, Democratic Distributive Justice seeks to explain how democratic countries with market systems should deal with the problem of high levels of income-inequality. The book provides an interdisciplinary approach to dealing with this issue that combines political, economic, and legal theory. The book also analyzes the nature of economic society and puts forth a new understanding of the considerations bearing upon the ethics of relative pay, such as the nature of individual contributions and the extent of community in capital based market systems.By exploring the integral relationship between democracy and economic justice, Democratic Distributive Justice seeks to explain how democratic countries with market systems should deal with the problem of high levels of income-inequality. The book provides an interdisciplinary approach to dealing with this issue that combines political, economic, and legal theory. The book also analyzes the nature of economic society and puts forth a new understanding of the considerations bearing upon the ethics of relative pay, such as the nature of individual contributions and the extent of community in capital based market systems.By exploring the integral relationship between democracy and economic justice, this study explains how democratic countries with market systems should deal with the problem of high levels of income-inequality. The book provides an interdisciplinary approach that combines political, economic, and legal theory. It also analyzes the nature of economic society and the considerations bearing upon the ethics of relative pay, such as the nature of individual contributions and the extent of community. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-79033-6Acknowledgements; 1. Democracy and economic justice; Part I. Unequal Property and Individualism in Liberal Thl£O