PRESENTATION AND BASIS

Presentation

This chapter derives the structure of global (overall) distributive justice in macrojustice implied by endogenous social choice, equal labour income equalization (ELIE), and shows its various properties and meanings, in the standard case (linear production functions, Section 1.2). In Section 2, the ELIE structure is derived from the duality of goods and measures (consumption-income and labour-leisure), process-freedom, and the required equality. Then, the various aspects or meanings of this result are pointed out, such as equal sharing of an equal share of the income value of productive capacities, partial equal pay for equal work, from each equally in labour (or according to her capacities) and to each equally, remuneration according to desert for one part and merit for the other part, general balanced labour reciprocity, or partial proportional compensation of productivity differentials. Section 3 focuses on the logic of ELIE. It considers the limiting cases of unemployment income of the less able, labour duty of the ablest, and highest incomes and labours. Section 4 displays the geometry of ELIE. It shows that freedom, and hence equal freedom, can be considered in two ways, directly as process-freedom or in the space of the result, and it characterizes ELIE in these two cases. The consequences of particular rights and rules, such as a workfare rule or a right to idleness, are pointed out in Section 5. Section 6 gathers the various meanings or meaningful properties of ELIE, and the meanings of the crucial coefficient k.