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Social Justice and Individual Ethics in an Open Society

Equality, Responsibility, and Incentives

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Frank Vandenbroucke

    1. Comparative Social Policy, Brussels, Belgium

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  • The book focuses on the philosophical justification of incentives in labour markets, but it belongs to a broader debate on social justice (more specifically, on equality and responsibility) and the sense of justice that is required from citizens in contemporary welfare states
  • Of interest both to theoretical economists and sociologists, and to political philosophers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 1-5

  3. Just Incentive Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Justice and the Labour Market

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 9-60

    3. Information, Efficiency, and Morality

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 60-87

    4. Responsibility, Well-being, Information, and the Design of Just Policies

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 88-139

  4. Justice and Incentives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Do Incentives Justify Inequality?

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 143-173

    3. Van Parijs's ยซSafeguardยป : One-Nation Pareto-ism

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 173-199

    4. The Moral Division of Labour, Social Structure, and Rules

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 200-228

    5. Rawls's Basic Structure Argument: A Critical Appraisal

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 229-260

    6. Publicity, Stability, and the Tasks of Political Philosophy

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 261-285

    7. Synopsis and Conclusion

      • Frank Vandenbroucke
      Pages 287-294

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 295-307
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About this book

Can the need for incentives justify inequality? Starting from this question, Frank Vandenbroucke examines a conception of justice in which both equality and responsibility are involved. In the first part of the inquiry, which explores the implementation of that conception of justice, the justification of incentives assumes that agents make personal choices based only upon their own interests. The second part of the book challenges the idea that a normative conception of distributive justice can be based on that traditional assumption, i.e. that personal choices are not the subject matter of justice. Thus, Vandenbroucke questions the Rawlsian idea that the primary subject of a theory of justice is the basic structure of society, and not the individual conduct of its citizens. For a society to be really just, the ethos of individual conduct has to serve justice. Non-mathematical readers can skip the formal model proposed in Chapter 3 and understand the rest of the book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Comparative Social Policy, Brussels, Belgium

    Frank Vandenbroucke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Justice and Individual Ethics in an Open Society

  • Book Subtitle: Equality, Responsibility, and Incentives

  • Authors: Frank Vandenbroucke

  • Series Title: Ethical Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59476-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin ยท Heidelberg 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59476-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2211-2707

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 307

  • Topics: Social Policy, Philosophy, general

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