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Global justice and finance
\"Can global justice be promoted by distributing money more equitably? This book casts new light on this question by considering what is presupposed about finance, and challenges the tradition of global justice theory that proposes modest reforms to the international institutional order as sufficient for achieving a more just world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Political Economy of Environmental Justice
The environmental justice literature convincingly shows that poor people and minorities live in more polluted neighborhoods than do other groups. These findings have sparked a broad activist movement, numerous local lawsuits, and several federal policy reforms.
Despite the importance of environmental justice, the topic has received little attention from economists. And yet, economists have much to contribute, as several explanations for the correlation between pollution and marginalized citizens rely on market mechanisms. Understanding the role of these mechanisms is crucial to designing policy remedies, for each lends itself to a different interpretation to the locus of injustices. Moreover, the different mechanisms have varied implications for the efficacy of policy responses-and who gains and loses from them.
In the first book-length examination of environmental justice from the perspective of economics, a cast of top contributors evaluates why underprivileged citizens are overexposed to toxic environments and what policy can do to help. While the text engages economic methods, it is written for an interdisciplinary audience.
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A republic of equals : a manifesto for a just society
\"Political equality is the most basic tenet of democracy. Yet in America and other democratic nations, those with political power have special access to markets and public services. A Republic of Equals traces the massive income inequality observed in the United States and other rich democracies to politicized markets and avoidable gaps in opportunity-and explains why they are the root cause of what ails democracy today. In this provocative book, economist Jonathan Rothwell draws on the latest empirical evidence from across the social sciences to demonstrate how rich democracies have allowed racial politics and the interests of those at the top to subordinate justice. He looks at the rise of nationalism in Europe and the United States, revealing how this trend overlaps with racial prejudice and is related to mounting frustration with a political status quo that thrives on income inequality and inefficient markets. But economic differences are by no means inevitable. Differences in group status by race and ethnicity are dynamic and have reversed themselves across continents and within countries. Inequalities persist between races in the United States because Black Americans are denied equal access to markets and public services. Meanwhile, elite professional associations carve out privileged market status for their members, leading to compensation in excess of their skills. A Republic of Equals provides a bold new perspective on how to foster greater political and social equality, while moving societies closer to what a true republic should be.\"--Dust jacket.
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The role of collective bargaining in the global economy
\"Participation in the global economy can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, such participation can also threaten employment, wages and labour standards. This volume examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that participation in the global economy is balanced, fair and just. Collective bargaining is often seen as either an impediment to the smooth functioning of markets, or as ineffective. This volume focuses on the other side of the story and demonstrates the positive contribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. No one size fits all and the various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different country settings and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. The volume also highlights the numerous challenges in this regard and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy.\" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku); Contents: Susan Hayter: Introduction (1-19); Steffen Lehndorff, Thomas Haipeter: Negotiating employment security: Innovations and derogations (20-46); Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann: Negotiating working time in fragmented labour markets: Realizing the promise of 'regulated flexibility' (47-75); Jason Heyes, Helen Rainbird: Bargaining for training: Converging or diverging interests? (76-106); Fathi Fakhfakh, Virginie Pérotin, Andrew Robinson: Workplace change and productivity: Does employee voice make a difference? (107-135); Susan Hayter, Bradley Weinberg: Mind the gap: Collective bargaining and wage inequality (136-186); Gerhard Reinecke, Maria Elena Valenzuela: Illustrating the gap: Collective bargaining and income distribution in Chile (187-204); Chang Lee, Mingwei Liu: Collective bargaining in transition: Measuring the effects of collective voice in China (205-226); Franz Traxler, Bernd Brandl: The economic impact of collective bargaining coverage (227-253); Richard Freeman: New roles for unions and collective bargaining post the implosion of Wall Street capitalism (254-276); Konstantinos Papadakis: Globalizing industrial relations: What role for international framework agreements? (277-315). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: anwendungsorientiert; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1990 bis 2009.
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A livable planet : human rights in the global economy
\"This book argues for a targeted human rights approach, assigning enhanced priority to a bundle of rights, strategically important for counteracting ecologically unsustainable, economically predatory market practices that threaten our ability to maintain a livable planet. Specifically, it calls for enhanced protection for dual-purpose human rights. They not only secure the very basic elements of well-being that ground many of those rights. They perform their normative function, in significant part, by imposing duties on states to protect the ecological conditions that sustain human life and make possible the satisfaction of basic needs and by giving individual right-holders more control over their ecological futures. High-priority, dual-purpose rights include rights of subsistence, food, water, and rights that protect against serious environmental health risks and ecological degradation. Climate disruption is perhaps the most obvious example of the rapidly unfolding ecological destruction unleashed by the scale, pace, and character of human impact on the rest of nature. However, humanity faces a more encompassing ecological predicament, consisting of a cluster of concurrent, mutually reinforcing crises. The cluster also includes land-system change resulting in deforestation and soil degradation, loss of biodiversity and biosphere integrity, alteration of biogeochemical cycles, and decreased freshwater availability. Individually and in combination, they pose civilizational threats of such magnitude and complexity that they challenge the ability of individuals to comprehend them and the capacities of institutions to respond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis
We live in a time of interrelated crises. Economic inequality and precarity, and crises of democracy, climate change, and more raise significant challenges for legal scholarship and thought. \"Neoliberal\" premises undergird many fields of law and have helped authorize policies and practices that reaffirm the inequities of the current era. In particular, market efficiency, neutrality, and formal equality have rendered key kinds of power invisible, and generated a skepticism of democratic politics. The result of these presumptions is what we call the \"Twentieth-Century Synthesis\": a pervasive view of law that encases \"the market\" from claims of justice and conceals it from analyses of power. This Feature offers a framework for identifying and critiquing the Twentieth-Century Synthesis. This is also a framework for a new \"law-and-political-economy approach\" to legal scholarship. We hope to help amplify and catalyze scholarship and pedagogy that place themes of power, equality, and democracy at the center of legal scholarship.
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Not anointing, but justice? A critical reflection on the anointing of Pentecostal prophets in a context of economic injustice
To what extent does the anointing of the Pentecostal prophets provide a meaningful way of responding to poverty in an unjust economic context? Using Zimbabwe as a case study, this article critically evaluates the growing reliance on the anointing of the Pentecostal prophets by many poor people as a way of responding to their economic poverty. The practice is considered to provide miraculous power to pave the way for a desired economic outcome. The article highlights that many people turn to the anointing of Pentecostal prophets as a form of spiritualised activism against unjust economic forces in the country. The article proposes that rather than anointing, seeking justice should be the adopted means of responding to unjust economic systems. It examines aspects that should inform the church’s quest for economic justice. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This study relates to the disciplines of systematic theology, public theology and sociology of religion by calling on Christians to allow other disciplines to inform their desire to eradicate poverty.
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The poverty of growth
How do we combat poverty and rising inequality? In our age of impending climate catastrophe, the conventional wisdom around GDP and economic growth is no longer fit for purpose; a rising tide sinks all boats. Oliver De Schutter argues that we must rethink the fight against poverty. The quest for economic growth not only clashes with the need to remain within planetary boundaries, but in fact creates the very social exclusion it is intended to cure: deteriorating human rights, widening the gap between the richest and the poorest, and merely modernising poverty without eliminating it. 'The Poverty of Growth' makes a clarion call to social movements, trade unions and environmental NGOs alike to forge a new pathway towards a 'post-growth' development, and a narrative of progress that is no longer orientated around wealth and profit.
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