Chapter 14: Economic Justice

1. Chapter 14: Economic Justice • Income Inequality • Health Care Inequalities • Justice compared to Charity,Efficiency, and Liberty • Process Distributive Justice • End State Distributive Justice

2. Chapter 14: continued • Equal Opportunity • Equality of wealth is not required • Equality of opportunity to attain it should be • Political and Economic Theories • Libertarianism • Capitalism • Socialism • Modern Liberalism • Communitarianism

3. Chapter 14: continued • John Rawls’s Theory of Justice • The original position and the veil of ignorance • The two principles of justice • Maximin strategy

4. Chapter 14: continued • Reading: Justice as Fairness • Justice as the first virtue of social institutions • The Main Idea • The original position and the veil of ignorance • Choice behind the veil of ignorance

5. Chapter 14: continued • The two principles of justice • Equal liberties • The Difference Principle • Equality of opportunity • The principle of redress

6. Chapter 14: continued • Reading: Distributive Justice

7. Chapter 14: continued • Reading: Distributive Justice • The Entitlement Theory • Acquisition, transfer and restitution • Historical principles vs. end-result principles • Patterning • The Wilt Chamberlain example • Liberty upsets patterns • Redistribution and property rights

8. Chapter 14: continued • Reading: The Idea of Justice • Two lines of reasoning during the Enlightenment 1. Identifying just institutional arrangements for society 2. Focus on getting the institutions right and not focusing on the actual societies that would emerge • The need for departure from these ideas. • The illustration – three children and a flute