Redressing historical injustice : self-ownership, property rights and economic equality / David Gordon, Wanjiru Njoya.
Gordon, David.; Njoya, Wanjiru.
2023
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Title Redressing historical injustice : self-ownership, property rights and economic equality / David Gordon, Wanjiru Njoya.
Author Gordon, David.
ISBN 9783031265846 (electronic bk.)
303126584X (electronic bk.)
3031265831
9783031265839
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26584-6
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-26584-6 doi
Call Number HB701
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.17
Summary 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).
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Series Palgrave studies in classical liberalism.
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REDRESSING HISTORICAL INJUSTICE.
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Classical Liberalism and Natural-Rights Libertarianism
1.2 The Question of Racial Justice
1.3 Key Concerns in Redressing Historical Injustice
1.4 Outline of the Book
References
2 Self-Ownership and Property Rights
2.1 The Concept of Self-Ownership
2.2 Utilitarian Perspectives
2.3 Natural Law Perspectives
2.4 Inequality and the Validity of Property Rights
2.5 Is Property Merely a Cultural Construct?
2.6 The Institutional Foundations of Private Property

2.7 Natural Rights and Individual Liberty
References
3 Legacies of Injustice and Racial Inequality
3.1 The Classical Ideal of Justice: Formal Equality and Individualism
3.2 Stolen Property and Counterfactual Analysis
3.3 Legacies of Injustice
3.4 Why the Causes of Inequality Matter
3.5 Moral Emotion and the Causes of Inequality
3.6 A Consistent Approach to Comparative Analysis
3.7 The Lessons of History
References
4 Property Rights and the Rule of Law
4.1 Natural Law as a Normative Ideal
4.2 Self-Ownership, Democracy and the Rule of Law

4.3 Unjust Acquisition of Title
4.4 Redefining Property Rights
4.5 Legislative Reform
References
5 Capitalism, Markets and Economic Equality
5.1 The Morality of Capitalism
5.2 The Racial Wealth Gap
5.3 The Causes of Economic Growth
5.4 Free Markets, Productivity and Redistribution
References
6 Conclusion
6.1 State Interventions and Mixed Economies
6.2 The New Equity
6.3 Implications for Economic Development
6.4 Stateless Justice and Anarchy
References
Bibliography
Index

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