... distributive justice, as well as to international management for peaceful purposes. The purpose of this paper is to argue that global commons values should be defended against these challenges in order to avoid the risk of exporting colonial legacies of injustice into outer space. Design/methodology...

..., 2011). Social welfare Poverty Welfare economics Deprivation Social economy Distributive justice The multi-dimensional nature of poverty has made its measurement diverse and subjective. One takes into account a computation of poverty line for each household, adjusting it from household...

... compelling readers find both Sen’s conception of distributive justice and the public policy recommendations based on it. Besides exploring some of the problematic implications of Sen’s readily identifying with Mill’s liberalism in particular, this essay also speculates on what it means to identify with any...

... can be contacted at: niimura@e.okayama-u.ac.jp 16 03 2016 14 06 2016 20 06 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Egalitarian Equality Distributive justice Adam Smith David Hume Jean-Jacques...

... is particularly noteworthy is that having this kind of perspective enabled Hobhouse to create a unique theory of distributive justice, something that was missing in Green’s moral philosophy. It is this side of Hobhouse’s ethical theory to which we must now turn to. Hanno Terao can be contacted...

... Publishing Limited 2015 Development Distributive justice Income distribution Welfare economics A single “extreme” observation can make an inequality index estimator uninformative, i.e., meaningless. Frequently, survey data are used to calculate inequality within an economy; we expect...

... for distributive justice that any decent political order must secure for all citizens. It is this threshold that is the intended focus of this paper. Design/methodology/approach Examining her most recent statement of the capability approach, Nussbaum's arguments that the threshold should be locally set by each...