The Place of the Market in a Rawlsian Economy
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Jahel Queralt
Abstract
Rawls identifies only two arrangements, the liberal socialist regime and the property-owning democracy, as being compatible with justice. Both are market-based economies, suggesting that a just society must include the market. This article questions this idea by looking at three Rawlsian arguments in favour of the market. Two arguments, which link the market to certain basic liberties, are unsound because the market is shown to be nonessential in protecting these liberties. A third argument points at the instrumental value of the market to make the least advantaged as well off as possible. R. is based on an interpretation of the difference principle in which justice requires maximizing the position of the worst off within the most productive economic system. Although commonly accepted, this reading of the principle should be questioned, and thus the third argument is also inconclusive.
© 2013 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Contents
- Editorial
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference
- The Property-Owning Democracy vesus the Welfare State
- Thoughts on Arrangements of Property Rights in Productive Assets
- Comment on John E. Roemer
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Priority of Liberty
- Comment on Gavin Kerr
- The Concept of Property in Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Tilo Wesche
- The Place of the Market in a Rawlsian Economy
- Between Sentimentalism and Instrumentalism. The Societal Role of Work in John Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy and Its Bearing upon Basic Income
- Fraternal Society in Rawls’ Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Andrew Walton
- Background Justice over Time: Property-Owning Democracy versus a Realistically Utopian Welfare State
- Comment on Michael Schefczyk
- Investing for a Property-Owning Democracy? Towards a Philosophical Analysis of Investment Practices
- Constitutionalizing Property-Owning Democracy
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of Politics
- Authors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Contents
- Editorial
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Difference
- The Property-Owning Democracy vesus the Welfare State
- Thoughts on Arrangements of Property Rights in Productive Assets
- Comment on John E. Roemer
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Priority of Liberty
- Comment on Gavin Kerr
- The Concept of Property in Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Tilo Wesche
- The Place of the Market in a Rawlsian Economy
- Between Sentimentalism and Instrumentalism. The Societal Role of Work in John Rawls’s Property-Owning Democracy and Its Bearing upon Basic Income
- Fraternal Society in Rawls’ Property-Owning Democracy
- Comment on Andrew Walton
- Background Justice over Time: Property-Owning Democracy versus a Realistically Utopian Welfare State
- Comment on Michael Schefczyk
- Investing for a Property-Owning Democracy? Towards a Philosophical Analysis of Investment Practices
- Constitutionalizing Property-Owning Democracy
- Property-Owning Democracy and the Circumstances of Politics
- Authors
