Economic Justice and Natural Law

Gary Chartier elaborates a particular version of economic justice rooted in the natural law tradition, explaining how it is relevant to economic issues and developing natural law accounts of property, work, and economic security.

He examines a range of case studies related to ownership, production, distribution, and consumption, using natural law theory as a basis for staking positions on a number of contested issues related to economic life and highlighting the potentially progressive and emancipatory dimension of natural law theory.

• Moves beyond theory to specific application, by addressing a variety of questions related to law and economic life
• Introduces the natural law approach to ethics, law, and politics, providing a context for specific discussions
• Offers particular normative and policy proposals regarding issues under review, provoking thought, discussion, and debate by focusing attention