Economic Justice

Abstract

The topic of social or economic justice is most often appreciated in modern literature from the partisan viewpoint of those who claim that many have less than their equal share of society’s goods. The problem of whether and how to compensate those members of society who, in the name of economic justice, have been required to divest themselves of portions of their property is of far less immediate concern to moral philosophy. Yet it is among the more perplexing issues with which the law has to deal. How the law decides in these matters depends largely on the methods of interpretation it employs.