Editors:
- Offers interdisciplinary perspectives on distributive justice
- Critically reviews and consolidates the theories of need and need-based distributive justice
- Explores the prospects a new theory of need-based distributive justice supported by experimental evidence
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book explores the foundations and potential of a theory of need-based distributive justice, supported by experimental evidence. The core idea is that need-based distributive justice may have some legitimatory advantages over other important principles of distribution, like equality and equity, and therefore involves less dispute over the distribution and redistribution of scarce resources.
In seven chapters, eleven scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science and economics outline the normative and positive building blocks of such a theory by critically reviewing the literature on distributive justice from their respective disciplinary perspectives. They address important theoretical and practical issues concerning the rationality of needs identification at the individual level and the recognition of needs at the societal level. They also investigate whether and how the dynamics of distribution procedures that allocate resourcesaccording to the need principle leads to social stability, focusing on the economic incentives that arise from need-based redistribution. The final chapter provides a synthesis and outlines a framework for a theory of justice based on ten hypotheses derived from the insights presented.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Stefan Traub
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Department of Economic Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Bernhard Kittel
About the editors
Bernhard Kittel is a Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Vienna (Austria) and principal investigator of the research group “Need-based justice and distributive procedures” (FOR 2104). His current main research interests are justice attitudes, group decision-making, and marginal groups in the labor market. He has published papers in various leading journals, most recently in Plos One, Social Science Research, the Journal of Public Economics, Political Research Quarterly, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Sociological Inquiry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Need-Based Distributive Justice
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Editors: Stefan Traub, Bernhard Kittel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44121-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44120-3Published: 30 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44123-4Published: 30 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44121-0Published: 29 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Public Policy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Personality and Social Psychology