Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy

by Aaron James

Book Overview

If the global economy seems unfair, how should we understand what a fair global economy would be? What ideas of fairness, if any, apply, and what significance do they have for policy and law?

Working within the social contract tradition, this book argues that fairness is best seen as a kind of equity in practice. The global economy as we know it is organized by an international social practice in which countries mutually rely upon common markets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199344566
• ISBN13: 9780199344567
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"