Globalization and Economic Ethics Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy

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Pub. Date: 12/15/2007
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? Globalization and Economic Ethics maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy. After all, human capital plays the central role in effecting and sustaining long-term efficiency in the Digital Age. This book explores the vital link between human capital formation and allocative efficiency using the properties of the market and the knowledge economy as analytical tools.

Author Biography

Albino Barrera is Professor of Economics and Humanities at Providence College in Rhode Island. His publications include Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (2005), God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (2005), and Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy (2001). 

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Overlapping Questions: Globalization and Distributive Justicep. 1
The Knowledge Economyp. 17
Microelectronics and Market Efficiencyp. 19
Requisite Agilityp. 49
Efficiency as a Criterion of Distributive Justicep. 85
Efficiency Matters Even More in the Information Age: Considering the Allocative Dimension of Pricep. 87
Preconditions and Limitations of Efficiency: Considering the Distributive Dimension of Pricep. 119
Need as a Criterion of Distributive Justicep. 143
Need Satisfaction as a Necessary Condition of Efficiencyp. 145
Broader Base for Market Initiative, Creativity, and Stabilityp. 171
Entitlement as a Criterion of Distributive Justicep. 187
Ownership Externalities and the Market as a Public Goodp. 189
Summary and Conclusions: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economyp. 209
Notesp. 221
Referencesp. 255
Indexp. 275
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