Chapter Fourteen

Economic Justice
Economic Inequality
Statistics
Socialimmobility
Race and gender
Minimum wage vs. living wage
Poverty, Education, and Health Care
Lifelong effects of poverty
Affordable Care Act
Conservative view: government should
not be involved in health care
Health care: not a Constitutional right
Conceptions of Social Justice
Social justice: concern for the impact that
social arrangements have on people
Mill: economic justice
Kant: human dignity
Locke: free-market economy
Supererogatory: beyond justice
Distributive justice: allocation of benefits
and burdens of society
Views of Economic Distribution
ProcessDistributive Justice
End-State Distributive Justice
Equal Opportunity
◦ Starting-gate theory
◦ Doctrine of sufficiency
Economic Justice
Income inequality
Health-care inequalities
Justice compared to charity,
efficiency, and liberty
Process Distributive Justice
End-State Distributive Justice
Political and Economic Theories
Political and Economic Theories
◦ Libertarianism
◦ Capitalism
◦ Socialism
◦ Modern liberalism
◦ Communitarianism