Economic Justice in American Society / / Robert E. Kuenne.
America is entering a new age of economic discord, warns Robert E. Kuenne. In addition to a panoply of other structural economic troubles, the nation must now confront unprecedented demands for the kind of "distributive justice" that will meet the needs of the elderly, handicapped, and imp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (460 p.) :; 58 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Part I. American Conceptions of Economic Justice
- CHAPTER 1. The Implicit Economic Ethic in the Market Economy
- PART II. Theoretical Bases for Economic Justice
- CHAPTER 2. Theories of Social Equity: Egoistically Oriented Theories
- CHAPTER 3. Theories of Social Equity: Socially Oriented Theories
- CHAPTER 4. A Framework for Judgment
- CHAPTER 5. A Critique of the Egoistically Oriented Theories
- CHAPTER 6. A Critique of the Socially Oriented Theories
- CHAPTER 7. The Bases for EconomicJustice in America: Philosophy, Rights and Obligations, and Policy
- PART III. The Patterns of Income Distribution in the United States
- CHAPTER 8. Measuring Inequality: A Menu of Problems and Choices
- CHAPTER 9. The Distribution of Income in the United States in the Postwar Period
- CHAPTER 10. The Feasibility of Redistributive Programs under the Dualistic Individualism Theory of Economic Equity
- CHAPTER 11. The Longer-Term Implications of Dualistic Individualism
- PART IV. Reprise and Prospect
- CHAPTER 12. Compassionate Capitalism
- NOTES
- INDEX