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DEMOCRATIC
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
BY ROSS ZUCKER
© Cambridge University Press 2001
This edition © Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) 2003
DEMOCRATIC DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
By exploring the nature of economic justice and of democracy, Ross Zucker
seeks to explain how democratic countries with market economies should
deal with the problem of high levels of income inequality. Revising a basic
assumption of social thought, Zucker suggests that people are more equal
than political theorists usually suppose them to be – in regard to their
attributes, wants, and economic contributions. Such equality morally warrants
corresponding limits on income inequality, beyond the measures suggested
by Rawls’s theory of justice. The origin of equality lies in formative
relations between persons, for example, those in the economy, and this book
contends that the study of persons-in-relations can provide perspectives on
equality that have been overlooked. Zucker also considers the manner in
which the ethics of community bear on the just distribution of property.
There is, he argues, a dimension of community in market economies that
extends more widely and inheres more deeply than liberals, communitarians,
Marxists, and social theorists recognize, and it provides further moral
support for limiting income inequality.
Integrating this view of economic justice with democratic theory yields
“democratic distributive justice,” whose central proposition is that the
preservation of a redistributory property right is among the chief ends of
democratic government. While prevailing theory defines democracy in terms
of the electoral mechanism, the author holds that the principles of just distribution
form part of the very definition of democracy, which makes just
distribution a requirement of democratic government. The problem of
income inequality is thus an inherently interdisciplinary one, and grappling
with it requires extensive use of political, economic, legal, and philosophical
theory.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Democracy and Economic Justice
Part I. Unequal Property and Individualism in Liberal
Theory
2. The Underlying Logic of Liberal Property Theory
3. Unequal Property and Its Premise in Locke’s Theory
4. Unequal Property and Individualism, Kant to Rawls
Part II. Egalitarian Property and Justice as Dueness
5. Whose Property Is It, Anyway?
6. The Social Nature of Economic Actors and Forms of
Equal Dueness
7. Policy Reflections: The Effect of an Egalitarian Regime
on Economic Growth
Part III. Egalitarian Property and the Ethics of
Economic Community
8. Deriving Equality from Community
9. The Dimension of Community in Capital-Based Market
Systems: Between Consumers and Producers
10. Endogenous Preferences and Economic Community
11. The Dimension of Community in Capital-Based Market
Systems: Between Capital and Labor
12. The Right to an Equal Share of Part of National Income
Part IV. Democracy and Economic Justice
13. Democratic Distributive Justice
14. Democracy and Economic Rights
Conclusions
References
Index