Globalization and Economic Ethics - Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

Informationen zum Autor ALBINO BARRERA   is Professor of Economics and Humanities at Providence College, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justice PART I: THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY Microelectronics and Market Efficiency Requisite Agility PART II: EFFICIENCY AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Efficiency Matters Even More in the Information Age: Considering the Distributive Dimension of Price PART III: NEED AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Need Satisfaction as a Necessary Condition of Efficiency Broader Base for Market Initiative, Creativity, and Stability PART IV: ENTITLEMENT AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Ownership Externalities Summary and Conclusions: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

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Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justice PART I: THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY Microelectronics and Market Efficiency Requisite Agility PART II: EFFICIENCY AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Efficiency Matters Even More in the Information Age: Considering the Distributive Dimension of Price PART III: NEED AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Need Satisfaction as a Necessary Condition of Efficiency Broader Base for Market Initiative, Creativity, and Stability PART IV: ENTITLEMENT AS A CRITERION OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE Ownership Externalities Summary and Conclusions: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

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• Authors: A Barrera, A. Barrera, Albino Barrera, Albino F. Barrera
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2008
• EAN: 9780230600898
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60089-8
• No. of pages: 301
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Globalisierung, Literaturtheorie, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Marketing und Vertrieb, Sales and Distribution, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, International Economics, sales management, Political Economy, Sales/Distribution, Sales & marketing, Literary theory, International Political Economy, Culture—Study and teaching, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Literature—Philosophy, International Political Economy’