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Michael Novak, Economic Justice, and War and Peace

Anderson, Ryan T. - 2018

As Michael Novak’s comrade-in-arms the late Richard John Neuhaus put it to me on more than one occasion, “we have a greater need to be reminded than to be instructed” (riffing on Boswell’s Life of Johnson). In many respects, having spent his life instructing us, we need Novak’s...

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Genes and Social Justice : A Rawlsian Reply to Moore

Farrelly, Colin - 2014

In this article, I critically examine Adam Moore's claim that the threshold for overriding intangible property rights and privacy rights is higher, in relation to genetic enhancement techniques and sensitive personal information, than is commonly suggested. I argue that Moore fails to see how...

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Bread (Rawls) + Freedom (Sen) = Social Justice? Religion and Economics in the Egyptian Spring

El-Gamal, Mahmoud - 2017

Many observers were surprised when Egyptians took to the streets first to overthrow the Mubarak regime, in early 2011, and then to overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood government, in mid 2013. Bayesian Network analysis of public opinion surveys is used to uncover dependence structures in...

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Rawlsian Justice and Preferences Over Work

Bradford, Wylie D. - 2002

theory of justice is shown to rest on shaky foundations. His account of the subjective circumstances of justice, which serve … economic theory in which preferences over work are excluded from welfare analysis. As a result, those in the original position … no good reason to exclude property rights over the means of production from consideration in the liberal theory of …

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Greenhouse Justice : Moving Beyond Kyoto

Byrne, John; Glover, Leigh; Wang, Young-Doo - 2022

Current international negotiations to address climate change are marked by growing divergence between government proposals and those advanced by civil society. The Conference of the Parties (COP) process has promoted a set of market-based policy instruments as the primary means to facilitate...

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Ecological Justice in the Greenhouse

Byrne, John; Wang, Young-Doo; Alleng, Gerard; Glover, Leigh - 2022

To date, the international community’s response to the problem of global climate changehas been preoccupied with concerns of markets, profit and efficiency, rather than social andenvironmental justice. The absence of explicit operational commitments to justice ininternational efforts to...

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Effects of Interactional Justice on Egocentric Bias in Resource Allocation Decisions

Leung, Kwok; Tong, Kwok-Kit - 2003

theory, when fair interpersonal treatment received could be attributed to an external cause, its attenuating effect on the …

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Illusions of Justice in International Taxation

Kern, Adam - 2020

International tax law determines which states may tax what. Despite its significance, its normative foundations are poorly understood—cursorily treated by tax experts, and almost entirely neglected by philosophers. In this essay, I criticize a common way of thinking about justice in...

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Task Force Raptor : Failure of Military Justice

Chapman, Dennis - 2022

Criminal Law Practitioner, American University Washington College of Law, Vol. XI, Issue II, January 27th, 2021.From 2012 to 2017, the U.S. Army carried out what is reputed to have been the largest criminal investigation it ever conducted: Army Criminal Investigation Divisions inquiry into the...

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Conscience and Justice in Equity

Miller, Paul B. - 2019

This short essay introduces and engages several philosophical questions raised by Irit Samet’s Equity: Conscience Goes to Market. Amongst other things, it addresses questions going to: the proper scope of equity; the relationship between equity’s remedial and supplemental functions; whether,...

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