Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice
Description
This book presents a new understanding of the idea of distributive justice in a capitalist economy. The author demonstrates that emphasis on the entrepreneurial role in market processes, in which products and resources are not given, but created and discovered as individuals, implies radically revised criteria of justice. He argues for the popular accepted notion of a "Finders-Keepers" role for distributive ethics. Mainstream economic and ethnical discussion of capitalism has generally taken the central issue as one of distributing a given "pie" among members of society,...
ISBN(s)
0631161538, 9780631161530