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Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will Be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice?
Author(s) -
Deutsch Morton
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1975.tb01000.x
Subject(s) - distributive justice , equity (law) , distributive property , value (mathematics) , economic justice , equity theory , law and economics , positive economics , public economics , economics , sociology , social psychology , actuarial science , political science , psychology , microeconomics , law , mathematics , statistics , pure mathematics
The concept of justice is discussed, and the thesis is advanced that “equity” is only one of the many values which may underlie a given system of justice. Hypotheses about the conditions which determine which values will be employed as the basis of distributive justice in a group are proposed, with discussion centered about the values of “equity,” “equality,” and “need” and the conditions which lead a group to emphasize one rather than another value.