This paper offers recommendations about how we can promote economic justice in the face of globalization. At the outset this paper discusses the dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality since the 1970s, about the time when globalization took off. Next, this paper considers the...

Means matter as well as ends. In the context of the microeconomic allocation of resources, the familiar statement corresponds to the duality of procedural versus endstate justice; the tension between these two approaches is highlighted by the strategic implementation approach. It is argued that...

This paper looks at public governance issues, such as efficiency, equity, fairness and transparency, related to government taxation and expense on human capital. Taxation of human capital requires ability to measure it. The paper proposes a new method of measuring human capital using the...

As the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Speaker and as a participant in the 2004 - 2005 Seventh Annual Public Interest Law Speakers Series, entitled "Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers," the author explores how Dr. King's legacy demands that lawyers work to abolish...

This article contributes to the literature on the impact of transitional justice measures using microfoundational evidence from experiments. We argue that there is a distributional dilemma at the heart of transitional justice programs, given that the State must allocate goods and services both...

How should health services be allocated if we wish to equalize opportunities among citizens of a country for longevity, or quality - adjusted life years (QUALYs)? Equalizing opportunities means leveling off the differences in the objective (say, longevity) due to circumstances beyond the...

We study the problem of how to allocate a set of indivisible objects like jobs or houses and an amount of money among a group of people as fairly and as efficiently as possible. A particular constraint for such an allocation is that every person should be assigned with the same number of objects...

This paper studies the problem of how to distribute a set of indivisible objects with an amount M of money among a number of agents in a fair way. We allow any number of agents and objects. Objects can be desirable or undesirable and the amount of money can be negative as well. In case M is...

Rawls's assertion that the specification of property rights over the means of production is not determined by the theory of justice is shown to rest on shaky foundations. His account of the subjective circumstances of justice, which serve as an empirical constraint on the deliberations of those...