Is any economic system unjust?
Southwest Philosophy Review 5 (2):17-23 (1989)
| Abstract | The morality of an economic system characterized as an Adam Smith type system is compared with one characterized by central planning. A prima facie case is made that, while the latter has attributes that satisfy a necessary condition for having moral attributes, the former does not and, as a result, has no moral attributes. But then a deeper look at the situation reveals that the directed systems really do not satisfy the necessary condition either. Both the directed and undirected systems end up in the same boat. Neither have any moral attributes | |||||||||
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