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Distributive Justice | Prof. Samuel Shye

Distributive Justice

DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE: CONCEPTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

Course Description
The problem of justly dividing a given amount of resources among contending individuals or groups raises both theoretical and practical questions in many fields: economics, philosophy, psychology, law and social sciences. In this course we examine principles and conceptions of distributive justice: equality as an initial general guideline, relative equality and recipient characteristics that justify unequal distributions, the utilitarian approach, and the roles of the law, of social policy and of corrective action. The role of subjective justice-evaluations and of the utility function in the various approaches, are discussed. Finally, a systemic theory for distributive justice is presented that combines the main approaches within a single unified framework, to form a basis for an economic decision making model.

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