Economic Justice in American Society (eBook)

Robert E. Kuenne (Autor)

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2014
460 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6359-4 (ISBN)

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America is entering a new age of economic discord, warns Robert E. Kuenne. In addition to a panoply of other structural economic troubles, the nation must now confront unprecedented demands for the kind of "distributive justice" that will meet the needs of the elderly, handicapped, and impoverished. Furthermore, American society faces the pressing problems of the disadvantaged with no explicit code of economic justice. Claims to various kinds of government entitlements are based increasingly on appeals to "economic justice," but no real national agreement exists on what that expression means. In this ambitious work, Kuenne sets out to remedy this want of consensus.After an extensive evaluation of earlier thinking about distributive justice, Kuenne proposes a new theory, "dualistic individualism," that is consistent with the American ethos of political and economic liberalism. He then frames a formal Bill of Economic Rights and Obligations, which defines proper governmental conduct in the economic terrain as the American Constitution does in the political. Defending a form of governmental policy that strikes a balance between the egoistic and compassionate elements of American individualism, Kuenne also considers the practical tasks of program implementation, and goes on to assess the feasibility of meeting concrete redistributive goals over the next thirty years. His thorough investigation of one of the country's most urgent predicaments could do much to stimulate debate over the ad hoc and unprincipled distributive policies that now prevail in the United States.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 58 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Ability to pay • Allocative Efficiency • American capitalism • A Theory of Justice • Behavioral Economics • Capital Gain • Capital Gains Tax • Capitalism • Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory) • communist society • Communitarianism • Competition (economics) • Consumption (Economics) • Cultural Hegemony • Democratic Socialism • developed country • Earned Income Tax Credit • Economic cost • Economic Efficiency • economic entity • economic freedom • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economic Interdependence • economic interventionism • economic liberalism • Economic Policy • Economic Power • economic problem • Economics • Economic sector • Economic Sociology • economy • Economy of the United States • Entitlement Theory • Equal Opportunity • Equity Value • Export subsidy • Factor price • family income • Fiscal Policy • Good (economics) • Homo economicus • Household income in the United States • Imputed income • income • Income bracket • income distribution • Income Equality • Income Tax • Income tax in the United States • Individualism • Institutional Economics • labor theory of value • Labour Power • Liberalism • Marginal cost • Marginal product • marginal utility • Market Economy • Market Mechanism • Market power • Market Value • Marxian economics • Median income • Moral absolutism • Negative Income Tax • Pareto Efficiency • Planned economy • Poverty thresholds (United States Census Bureau) • Price Fixing • Price support • Principles of Political Economy • Profit (economics) • profit motive • progressive tax • purchasing power • Rational Choice Theory • Redistribution of income and wealth • Robinson Crusoe economy • Self-Interest • Social Contract • Social Equity • socialist economics • social liberalism • Socially necessary labour time • social welfare function • Supply (economics) • Tax • Taxable income • Tax exemption • Tax Incidence • Tax law • Tax Policy • Technical progress (economics) • Utilitarianism • Utility • Value product • welfare • Welfare State
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6359-7 / 1400863597
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6359-4 / 9781400863594