Is Social Justice, Just?

Special Symposium

Is ‘social justice’ a valid concept for assessing society’s rules and norms? Or does it enable and rationalize injustice, coercion, and wrongdoing? Contributors to The Independent Review’s Summer 2019 symposium weigh in, offering insights on the moral implications of social justice, the right to opt out, the nature of Western justice, perspectives from Hayek, Rawls, Aristotle and Aquinas, and more!
 
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Co-Editors:
Christopher J. Coyne
Michael C. Munger
Robert M. Whaples


Editor at Large:
Robert Higgs
The Summer 2019 issue features:
  • Introduction: New Thinking about Social Justice, by Robert M. Whaples
  • Opting Out: A Defense of Social Justice, by James R. Otteson Jr.
  • Social Justice versus Western Justice, by Daniel Guerrière
  • Social Justice, Public Goods, and Rent Seeking in Narratives, by Phillip W. Magness, Vincent Geloso
  • Social Injustice and Spontaneous Orders, by Jacob T. Levy
  • Hayekian Social Justice, by Kevin D. Vallier
  • Knowledge Problems from behind the Veil of Ignorance, by Daniel J. D’Amico
  • Civil Society and Social Justice: A Prospectus, by James R. Stoner Jr.
  • Social Justice, Economics, and the Implications of Nominalism, by R. Scott Smith
  • The Mantle of Justice, by Adam G. Martin
  • Social Justice: Intersecting Catholicism, Citizenship, and Capitalism, by John A. Moore
  • An Exchange Theory of Social Justice: A “Gains from Trade under Uncertainty” Perspective, by Anthony J. Gill
  • Is Social Justice a Mirage?, by Stefanie Haeffele, Virgil Henry Storr
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