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A RESPONSE TO ERIK SCHOKKAERT ON MACROJUSTICE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

Serge-Christophe Kolm
Serge-Christophe Kolm*
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
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Abstract

Erik Schokkaert's note presents a very good summary of the theory of macrojustice and a very good list of the directions of research it points to. This is quite fitting since a research programme defines a paradigm, and he sees this proposal as a paradigm shift. This is also very appropriate since his own qualifications are the best for advancing fast in these research topics. I have only a very small number of qualifications to add to his presentation, but I prefer to begin with emphasizing the most important issues. Two aspects can be seen as the most important: the de facto axiomatic derivation of the solution ELIE and its application on the one hand, and the present state of scholarly studies of the optimum or just distribution of income on the other hand. Let us enter by the second door (as opposed to what is done in the book Macrojustice). This will lead us to conclude with a more synthetic and broader view of the basic logic of the paradigms of justice and of the surprising recent history of their interpretations.

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 85 - 98
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