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): 0-521-79033-6
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"Ross Zucker has written a novel and thought-provoking book on the relationship between income distribution, rights, and democratic community. In it, he offers a powerful arguement for a more egalitarian distribution of income. He also offers numerous penetrating observations on popular and influential theories of distribution, indicating clearly how they relate to his own. This is a rewarding and challenging book both for those who find themselves convinced by its central argument and those who remain skeptical." David P. Levine, University of Denver
"Zucker's book is of particular interest for its methodological structure, which allows the author to deal with issues now at the center of the debate...The wide scope of the analysis provided by the method adopted allows the author to deal with many significant perspectives: from Locke to Marx, from Keynes to Rawls and Dworkin, from the communitarians to Dahl...The book has the merit of demonstrating, by contrast to the view of modern economic theory, that capital-based market systems are characterized by a dimension of community on a systemwide scale and that democracy necessarily involves rule in accord with redistributory property rights. Distributive justice is a crucial problem both from a theoretical and a practical point of view in a renewed democracy willing to go beyond the persistent liberal model derived from Locke." Thomas Casadei, Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law
"In this exceptionally fine scholarly analysis of the political economy of democracy, Zucker argues that the dynamics of modern capitalism require a broad theoretical framework that justifies more egalitarian distribution of national income...This book should be required reading for anyone, regardless of ideological perspective, who wishes to obtain a comprehensive understanding of capitalism in modern democracy. Highly recommended..." Robert Hieneman, CHOICE
"Democratic Distributive Justice is to be welcomed as a challenging contribution to contemporary political and economic theory. Critical of both liberals and communitarians, Zucker cunningly argues for an individual economic right on the basis of the implicit communitarian features of modern capitalist economies...[T]he book is clearly argued, not withstanding its multidisciplinarity." Agustin Jose Menendez, Political Studies in 2002
"Zucker's book is of particular interest for its methodological structure, which allows the author to deal with issues now at the center of the debate...The wide scope of the analysis provided by the method adopted allows the author to deal with many significant perspectives: from Locke to Marx, from Keynes to Rawls and Dworkin, from the communitarians to Dahl...The book has the merit of demonstrating, by contrast to the view of modern economic theory, that capital-based market systems are characterized by a dimension of community on a systemwide scale and that democracy necessarily involves rule in accord with redistributory property rights. Distributive justice is a crucial problem both from a theoretical and a practical point of view in a renewed democracy willing to go beyond the persistent liberal model derived from Locke." Thomas Casadei, Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law
"In this exceptionally fine scholarly analysis of the political economy of democracy, Zucker argues that the dynamics of modern capitalism require a broad theoretical framework that justifies more egalitarian distribution of national income...This book should be required reading for anyone, regardless of ideological perspective, who wishes to obtain a comprehensive understanding of capitalism in modern democracy. Highly recommended..." Robert Hieneman, CHOICE
"Democratic Distributive Justice is to be welcomed as a challenging contribution to contemporary political and economic theory. Critical of both liberals and communitarians, Zucker cunningly argues for an individual economic right on the basis of the implicit communitarian features of modern capitalist economies...[T]he book is clearly argued, not withstanding its multidisciplinarity." Agustin Jose Menendez, Political Studies in 2002
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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.
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Social aspects of the person should have a salience that they are not usually accorded in considerations of relative distribution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natural law provisos, preclassical economists, equalized portion, indirect entitlements, primary political rights, systemwide community, endogenous consumption, subordinate foundational, monetary stage, concrete equalities, monetary inequalities, unequal titles, entitlement logics, total social income, ongoing circulation, multiple wants, consumer contributions, individual dominion, individualistic considerations, concrete equality, preexisting inequalities, subjective personality, consumption attributes, endogenous preference formation, intersubjective judgments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Phelps Brown, The New York Times, Adam Smith, New Economic Analysis of Law, John Rawls, David Levine, Felix Cohen, George Washington Carver, Soviet Union, Where Bentham New!
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Social aspects of the person should have a salience that they are not usually accorded in considerations of relative distribution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natural law provisos, preclassical economists, equalized portion, indirect entitlements, primary political rights, systemwide community, endogenous consumption, subordinate foundational, monetary stage, concrete equalities, monetary inequalities, unequal titles, entitlement logics, total social income, ongoing circulation, multiple wants, consumer contributions, individual dominion, individualistic considerations, concrete equality, preexisting inequalities, subjective personality, consumption attributes, endogenous preference formation, intersubjective judgments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Phelps Brown, The New York Times, Adam Smith, New Economic Analysis of Law, John Rawls, David Levine, Felix Cohen, George Washington Carver, Soviet Union, Where Bentham New!
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- Microeconomic Theory by Andreu Mas-Colell on 4 pages
- Federal Wealth Transfer Tax Anthology by Paul L. Caron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on page 126, and Back Matter
- North and South by Cleghorn Elizabeth Gaskell on page 232, and Back Matter
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- Democratic Distributive Justice by Ross Zucker in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law) by Stephen R. Munzer in Front Matter
- Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives by James P. Sterba on page 245
- Social and Political Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives by James P. Sterba on page 245
- Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by Carol C. Gould on page 215
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