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Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth

by John A. Ryan

Pages: 442

Contributors: John A. Ryan

Publisher: Macmillan

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1916

Subjects: Wealth--Moral And Ethical Aspects,Income Distribution--Moral And Ethical Aspects

Table of Contents

Title Page

Preface

Contents

Introductory Chapter

General References

Distributive Justice

Section I: The Morality of Private Landowner Ship and Rent

Chapter II: Landownership in History

Chapter III: The Arguments Against Private Landownership

Chapter IV: Private Ownership the Best System of Land Tenure

Chapter V: Private Landownership a Natural Right

Chapter VI: Limitations on the Landowner's Right to Rent

Chapter VII: Defects of the Existing Land System

Chapter VIII: Methods of Reforming Our Land System

Section II: The Morality of Private Capital And Interest

Chapter IX: The Nature and the Rate of Interest

Chapter X: The Alleged Right of Labour to the Entire Product Of Industry

Chapter XI: The Socialist Scheme of Industry

Chapter XII: Alleged Intrinsic Justifications of Interest

Chapter XIII: Social and Presumptive Justifications of Interest

Chapter XIV: Co-Operation as a Partial Solvent of Capitalism

Section III: The Moral Aspect of Profits

Chapter XV: The Nature of Profits

Chapter XVI: The Principal Canons of Distributive Justice

Chapter XVII: Just Profits in Conditions of Competition

Chapter XVIII: The Moral Aspect of Monopoly

Chapter XIX: The Moral Aspect of Stock Watering

Chapter XX: The Legal Limitation of Fortunes

Chapter XXI: Duty of Distributing Superfluous Wealth

Section Iv The Moral Aspect of Wages

Chapter XXIII: The Minimum of Justice: a Living Wage

Chapter XXIV: The Problem of Complete Wage Justice

Chapter XXV: Methods of Increasing Wages

Chapter XVII: Summary and Conclusion

Index

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