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17 - The degree of redistribution, solidarity, community, and reciprocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2009

Serge-Christophe Kolm
Affiliation:
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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IMPORTANCE AND METHOD

Place and general method

In the foregoing analysis, the distinction of issues and remarks about their relative importance, associated with principles of unanimity and impartiality (and hence, of the relevant equality), have led to the conclusion that global distribution should have a structure of equal labour income equalization (ELIE). Individuals should equally share their product of the same “equalization labour” k – obtained with their different given capacities. The corresponding distributive transfers should amount to the implementation of this principle. This equalization labour or coefficient k is rich in very important meanings: it turns out to be, for the considered society, a degree of redistribution (from full self-ownership); of income equalization; of solidarity for facing the unequal natural distribution of capacities; of community in rights to resources; of labour reciprocity (the redistribution amounts to each individual yielding to each other the product of the same labour, or to each owning this product of each other);of income compensation for lower productivity; and of decrease in disparities in individuals' total incomes. Coefficient k will also turn out to be the minimum guaranteed income for individuals not responsible for their low income, as a fraction of the average wage.

The determination of this coefficient k is shown in the present part of this study. This will complete the determination of the required global distribution, and hence also, in adding the other applications of basic rights, of macrojustice in society.

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Macrojustice
The Political Economy of Fairness
, pp. 279 - 297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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