Open AccessLabor Self-Management: Is It Consistent With Rawls?
Author(s) -
Patrick Rooney
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied business research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2157-8834
pISSN - 0892-7626
DOI - 10.19030/jabr.v2i4.6558
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , economic justice , capitalism , democracy , sociology , positive economics , benchmark (surveying) , economics , neoclassical economics , law and economics , law , political science , computer science , politics , geodesy , geography , artificial intelligence
Is labor self-management (LSM) an element of a just society? The goal of this essay is to succinctly delineate John Rawls scheme of justice and to demonstrate how LSM is consistent with Rawls ethical system and criteria. In fact, LSM will be shown to be superior to conventional hierarchical firmsfrom both an efficiency perspective and as measured by Rawls ethical criteria. Rawls A Theory Of Justice (1971) was selected as the benchmark because it is arguably the most widely cited and discussed ethical explanation for democratic capitalism.