This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also...

Eigentum verpflichtet, so ist es schon im Grundgesetz festgehalten. Eigentum und Vermögen, Kapital und Besitz stellen eine Form des persönlichen wie gesellschaftlichen Reichtums dar. Doch wie wird dieser Reichtum erworben? Wie wird er verteilt? Die Grundwerte des wirtschaftlichen Handelns sind...

Why Should We Debate the Theory of Macrojustice?- THE MACROJUSTIC OF SERGE-CHRISTOPHE KOLM: General Presentation -- Economic Macrojustice: Fair Optimum Income Distribution, Taxation and Transfers -- PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF MACROJUSTICE: ELIE and the Emotions Related to Social Recognition --...

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...

This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions....

This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending...