Self-Seeking and the Pursuit of Justice PDF
by David P. Levine
Part of the Routledge Revivals series
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First published in 1997, this volume delves into the most influential theories of economic justice, which ground themselves in utilitarian or related contractarian ideas about the self.
These ideas take self-interest to be transparent and unproblematic.
Favoured assumptions about the self also make scarcity the primary reality with which economic justice must deal.
Much is lost in consideration of the justness of economic arrangements when we take the wants and interests of the self for granted in this way, and treat scarcity as a premise.
In this book the author places the discussion of economic justice on a sounder foundation as regards the nature and ends of the self.
The book begins with a discussion of the self as a structure, and proceeds to consider aspects of self-interest, public ends, economic welfare, needs and wants, the limits of the market, economic democracy, global inequality, and justice as the end of development.
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/05/2019
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- ISBN:9780429800375
