Exploitation and economic justice in the liberal capitalist state /

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Author / Creator:Reiff, Mark R., 1957-
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Description:x, 348 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9129475
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ISBN:9780199664009
0199664005
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Exploitation and Justice
  • 1.1. Exploitation and Marx
  • 1.2. Exploitation after Marx
  • 1.3. Exploitation as a Liberal Egalitarian Theory of Distributive Justice
  • 2. Exploitation and the Just Price
  • 2.1. The Just Price in the Ancient World
  • 2.2. The Just Price in the Medieval World
  • 2.3. The Just Price in the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, and on into the Modem World
  • 2.4. What the History of Just Price Theory Has to Tell Us About Exploitation
  • 3. The Limits of Exploitation
  • 3.1. Gifts
  • 3.2. Commodification
  • 3.3. Contraband
  • 3.4. Capacity
  • 3.5. Voluntariness
  • 3.6. Value
  • 4. What Price is Just?
  • 4.1. Market Price vs Cost of Production
  • 4.2. Accounting vs Economic Cost
  • 4.3. Marginal vs Average Total Cost
  • 4.4. Private vs Social Cost
  • 4.5. Accounting for Time
  • 4.6. Calculating the Cost of Labor
  • 4.6.1. Subsistence and Contextual Basic Needs
  • 4.6.2. When Compensation is Excessive
  • 5. Exploitation and Intolerable Unfairness
  • 5.1. The Scope of the Principle of Toleration
  • 5.2. Three Reasons for Toleration
  • 5.3. Toleration and Sales below the Just Price
  • 5.4. Toleration and Sales above the Just Price
  • 5.4.1. The First Level of Tolerable Unfairness
  • 5.4.2. The Second Level of Tolerable Unfairness
  • 5.4.3. Intolerable Unfairness
  • 5.5. Toleration and Innovation
  • 5.5.1. The Investor and the Entrepreneur
  • 5.5.2. The Problem of Skew
  • 5.5.3. The Definition of "Goods"
  • 5.6. The Nature and Role of Profit
  • 6. Implementation and Enforcement
  • 6.1. The Indeterminacy of the View from Nowhere
  • 6.2. The Minimum Wage and Unemployment
  • 6.3. The Maximum Wage and the Flight of the Talented
  • 6.4. Minimum Prices and Public and Private Goods
  • 6.5. Maximum Prices and the Redistribution of Excess Profits
  • 6.6. The Fear of Full Employment and Inflation
  • 6.7. Maximum Profitability and the Recognition of Income
  • 6.8. Exploitation and the Estate and Gift Tax
  • 6.9. Exploitation and Speculation
  • 6.10. Exploitation and Arbitrage
  • 6.11. Exploitation and Climate Change
  • 7. The Prospects for an Overlapping Consensus
  • 7.1. Exploitation and Libertarianism
  • 7.1.1. The Place of the Just Price in the Structure of Libertarian Thought
  • 7.1.2. Self-Ownership, Equal Liberty, and Negative Liberty
  • 7.2. Exploitation and Luck Egalitarianism
  • 7.3. Exploitation and the Difference Principle
  • 7.4. Exploitation, Equality of Opportunity, and the Demographics of Inequality
  • References
  • Index