As compared with the established theory of production, distribution theory itself cannot go beyond the normative outskirts and so socio-political circumstances. The principal focus, therefore, is given to socio-political as well as economic changes and its impact on the application of justice theory into distribution in postindustrial society. / Ideologically, American society is conceived to be based upon the value system of equity and equality as key social values rather than efficiency and liberty. The traditional, i.e., liberalistic theories of distribution, which are represented by utilitarian and contractual models, become the conventional wisdom that is not appropriate for understanding a changed society. / We developed a new conceptual model of distributive justice, Neo-Political Economy Model (NPEM) which attempts to integrate justice concept into distribution, based upon the evaluation of a newly elected set of relevant reasons, i.e., desert and need, for achieving a balance between equity (equality) and efficiency (liberty). It pinpoints that the exact position of the lever in a value scale between the two sets of key values cannot be determinate a priori but dependent upon the socio-political surroundings of the economy. / Justice theory as politics at large, of course, has difficulties in its applicability into economic activities including distribution which are assumed to be based upon self-interest. For socio-political existence lies in not only self-interest based upon reason but self-denial expressed as love, friendship, neighborhood, etc. In this sense, the Rawlsian contractarian liberalistic theory of justice has certain limits to conceiving the wholeness of social existence. / Our conclusions are that American postindustrial society moves in favor of equity and equality through fulfilling needs of people below a "social norm," and its justification relies on reasoning that distributive justice lies in achieving the wholeness of social existence by incorporating self-denial into a newly emerging structure of communal life. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, Section: A, page: 2051. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74828 |
| Contributors | BAE, HAN-SIK., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 508 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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