IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/esichp/978-3-031-97066-5_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Some Preliminary Considerations on Distributive Justice

Author

Listed:
  • Maurizio Bovi

    (ISTAT—Italian National Institute of Statistics)

Abstract

This chapter offers a brief historical overview and outlines key preliminary considerations regarding distributive justice. It emphasizes how notions of acceptable inequality are shaped by varying socioeconomic and cultural contexts, thereby rendering consensus on the concept particularly elusive. While some debates around justice date back millennia, modern understandings of economic inequality only began to take shape a few centuries ago. A key clarification is that no theory of distributive justice assigns intrinsic value to material well-being. This may seem redundant, yet frameworks that treat material resources merely as means to higher order ends are often paradoxically criticized for their materialism. At the same time, normative discourse and some literature tend to overemphasize economic growth as the primary driver of well-being. The ongoing debate around moving “beyond GDP” illustrates this tension.

Suggested Citation

  • Maurizio Bovi, 2025. "Some Preliminary Considerations on Distributive Justice," Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion, and Well-Being,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:esichp:978-3-031-97066-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97066-5_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:esichp:978-3-031-97066-5_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.