Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy
What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy.
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Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy
What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy.
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Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

by A. Barrera
Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

by A. Barrera

Paperback(2007)

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What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230623002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 02/09/2010
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ALBINO BARRERA is Professor of Economics and Humanities at Providence College, USA.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justice 1

Part I The Knowledge Economy 17

Chapter 2 Microelectronics and Market Efficiency 19

Chapter 3 Requisite Agility 49

Part II Efficiency as a Criterion of Distributive Justice 85

Chapter 4 Efficiency Matters Even More in the Information Age: Considering the Allocative Dimension of Price 87

Chapter 5 Preconditions and Limitations of Efficiency: Considering the Distributive Dimension of Price 119

Part III Need as a Criterion of Distributive Justice 143

Chapter 6 Need Satisfaction as a Necessary Condition of Efficiency 145

Chapter 7 Broader Base for Market Initiative, Creativity, and Stability 171

Part IV Entitlement as a Criterion of Distributive Justice 187

Chapter 8 Ownership Externalities and the Market as a Public Good 189

Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy 209

Notes 221

References 255

Index 275

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