@article{1461851,
      author = {Gordon, David. and Njoya, Wanjiru.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1461851},
      title = {Redressing historical injustice : self-ownership, property  rights and economic equality /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {This study co-authored by Wanjiru Njoya and David Gordon  offers a closely reasoned argument against racial  preferences and racial reparations. The authors offer a  concept of justice that flatly contradicts these claims and  which stresses self-ownership and individual  responsibility. They correctly point out that the hardships  that the ancestors of those now demanding special treatment  may have been subject to in the past does not entitle them  to special treatment at the expense of other Americans. -  Paul Gottfried, Raffensperger Professor Emeritus of  Humanities, Elizabethtown College and Editor of Chronicles.  We can have individual liberty and property rights. Or we  can have reparations. But we cant have both. This is the  compelling message from Wanjiru Njoya and David Gordon, who  skillfully skewer the idea of compensation between racial  groups for historical injustice. Do some groups of  individuals owe other groups of individuals for  circumstances that took place before any of them were born?  Njoya and Gordon explain why the answer is no. - Bruce  Pardy, Professor of Law, Queens University and Executive  Director, Rights Probe This book offers an alternative to  theories of distributive or restorative justice in  resolving economic inequality, highlighting the importance  of property rights and market participation in advancing  liberty, prosperity and the rule of law. The book will be  of interest to researchers and students of economics, law,  politics and philosophy. David Gordon is a senior fellow at  the Ludwig von Mises Institute and editor of the Mises  Review. Dr. Gordon is the author of Resurrecting Marx: The  Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom, and Justice,  The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics, An  Introduction to Economic Reasoning, and Critics of Marx.  Wanjiru Njoya is a Senior Lecturer at the University of  Exeter. She is a law graduate of the University of Nairobi,  Kenya, and a former Rhodes Scholar (St Edmunds College,  Cambridge, 1998). Dr. Njoya is the author of Economic  Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality  in Contexts of Racial Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan,  2021).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26584-6},
      recid = {1461851},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      year = {2023},
}