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Economic Analysis of Trade-offs between Justices
Ökonomische Analyse der Trade-offs zwischen Gerechtigkeiten
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Abstract We argue that economics - as the scientific method of analysing trade-offs - can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-offs between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the "opportunity set" of politics with respect to the two n... mehr
We argue that economics - as the scientific method of analysing trade-offs - can be helpful (and may even be indispensable) for assessing the trade-offs between intergenerational and intragenerational justice. Economic analysis can delineate the "opportunity set" of politics with respect to the two normative objectives of inter- and intragenerational justice, i.e. it can describe which outcomes are feasible in achieving the two objectives in a given context, and which are not. It can distinguish efficient from inefficient uses of instruments of justice. It can identify the "opportunity cost" of attaining one justice to a higher degree, in terms of less achievement of the other. We find that, under very general conditions, (1) efficiency in the use of instruments of justice implies that there is rivalry between the two justices and the opportunity cost of either justice is positive; (2) negative opportunity costs of achieving one justice exist if there is facilitation between the two justices, which can only happen if instruments of justice are used inefficiently; (3) opportunity costs of achieving one justice are zero if the two justices are independent of each other, which is the case in the interior of the opportunity set where instruments of justice are used inefficiently.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Gerechtigkeit; Nachhaltigkeit; nachhaltige Entwicklung; Effizienz; Generationenverhältnis; Ressourcen; Knappheit; ökonomische Theorie; ökonomisches Verhalten; Opportunitätskosten
Klassifikation
Ökologie und Umwelt
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und "Schulen", Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
intragenerational justice; intergenerational justice
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2012
Seitenangabe
S. 4-9
Zeitschriftentitel
Intergenerational Justice Review (2012) 1
Heftthema
The Interdependencies between Justices
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24357/igjr.6.1.459
ISSN
2190-6335
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)