Economic Justice and Natural Law

by Gary Chartier

• ISBN13: 9780521767200
• ISBN10: 0521767202
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Gary Chartier elaborates a particular version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition, explaining how it is relevant to economic issues and developing natural law accounts of property, work, and economic security. He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law theory as a basis for staking positions on a number of contested issues related to economic life and highlighting the potentially progressive and emancipatory dimension of natural law theory.

Author Biography

Gary Chartier is Associate Professor of Law and Business Ethics at La Sierra University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Plan of the book	p. 2
The core of natural law theory	p. 6
Basic aspects of well being	p. 7
Requirements of practical reasonableness	p. 13
The shape of practical reason in the natural law view	p. 23
Natural law and social order	p. 26
Natural law and economic life	p. 31
Foundations: Property	p. 32
Property regimes as contingent but constrained social strategies	p. 32
Rationales for property rights	p. 33
The limits of property	p. 43
Property and Justice	p. 46
Foundations: work	p. 69
Responsibility at work	p. 70
Good cause and due process	p. 73
Nondiscrimination	p. 83
Natural law and workplace democracy	p. 89
Workers and investors in the worker-governed firm	p. 107
Objections to workplace democracy	p. 109
Justice at work	p. 120
Remedies: property	p. 123
Principles for property reform	p. 123
Alternative bases for peasants' and workers' claims	p. 131
Property rights for peasants in the land they work	p. 135
Property rights for workers in their workplaces	p. 141
Residential property rights and urban renewal	p. 146
Property rights and remediation	p. 154
Remedies: distribution	p. 155
Natural law and redistribution	p. 156
Natural law and economic norms, rules, and institutions	p. 159
Health care	p. 161
Basic income	p. 164
Poverty relief outside one's own community	p. 167
Boycotts	p. 176
Remedies for injustice, disaster, and economic insecurity	p. 182
Remedies: work	p. 185
The value of collective bargaining	p. 186
Worker participation in the direction of investor-governed firms	p. 199
Setting workplace standards using collective bargaining	p. 202
Collective bargaining and sweatshop labor	p. 211
Limited justice in unjust workplaces	p. 225
Conclusion	p. 226
Index	p. 229
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