Justice in Contract, no Justice in the Background

No Justice in Climate Policy ?

arguments about morality, justice, and economic inequality that he offers in support of his proposal for a WCB together with a price on carbon. I then address objections to Broome's position, rebut some of them, and contrast his position to that of P&W. (C) Broome Like P&W, Broome takes as his starting point the fact that the climate treaty negotiation participants who have the most power are u...

Economic Justice and the Contract Method Albert

Morals by Agreement contained a distinctive theory of economic justice alongside its theory of moral obligation. That theory involved the principle that individuals were entitled to the full fruits of their labour in situations of isolated production, but not in situations where social cooperation was needed for production. In the latter case, factor rent was to be included in the cooperative s...

Social Contract and Economic Justice Social Contract and Economic Justice 1. from Hypothetical to Empirical Contracts

This paper seeks to construct a social contract theory of economic justice using Barry's (1989: 347-8) empirical method of contractual reasoning. Barry described this method in a passage worth quoting at length: 'The empirical method starts from observation rather than pure thought. It is animated by the consideration that actual societies approximate more or less closely the conditions .... th...

Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice

Distributive Justice in Pharmaceutical Torts: Justice Where Justice Is Due?

Ongoing tort reform efforts attest to the significant burden that medical liability imposes on the health care system. General attempts to curb excesses can narrow socioeconomic disparities, but as Clark Havighurst and Barak Richman observe, such measures may leave intact some of the regressive characteristics of the framework they supplant. Therefore, it seems appropriate to question whether t...