The notion of economic justice and the property rights of producers is fundamental to all economic, legal and political systems. Morris Silver's book presents a critical survey of thought in this area - including Rawls, Nozick and Buchanan - to develop a model of economic justice stressing the natural rights of producers to the objects of the production. The central argument of the book is that economic justice has an empirically determinate objective basis in individuals' feelings but that these feelings should not be identified with preferences, utility or interest. They are instead a "moral emotion" rooted in human nature. The author extends this producer ethic to the complexities of modern exchange economies and argues that exchange itself is part of the production process.
- ISBN10 063116748X
- ISBN13 9780631167488
- Publish Date 27 July 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 August 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English