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.

Autorentext
ALBINO BARRERA ****is Professor of Economics and Humanities at Providence College, USA.

Inhalt
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