Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Catholic Social Ethics, Fair Wages, and Economic JusticeBy John A. Ryan
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John A. Ryan's Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth is a systematic moral inquiry into wages, profits, rent, interest, ownership, and the social obligations attached to economic power. Written in the idiom of Catholic moral theology yet attentive to Progressive Era economics, the book combines scholastic clarity with reformist urgency. Ryan measures modern capitalism against principles of natural right, condemning both destitution amid plenty and any purely contractual defense of inequality. Ryan, a Catholic priest, economist, and leading American interpreter of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum, wrote from sustained engagement with labor questions and the campaign for a living wage. His intellectual formation joined Thomistic ethics to empirical concern for industrial workers, giving his argument unusual force: distribution is not merely a technical outcome of markets, but a test of social justice and Christian civilization. This book is recommended to readers interested in political economy, Catholic social thought, labor history, and the ethical foundations of economic reform. Though rooted in early twentieth-century debates, its questions about fair wages, property, social responsibility, and structural inequality remain strikingly contemporary.
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Publish dateNov 23, 2023
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Table of contents
1Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Synopsis
4Historical Context
5PREFACE
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6INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
7THE ELEMENTS AND SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
8CHAPTER I THE LANDOWNER'S SHARE OF THE NATIONAL PRODUCT
9Economic Rent Always Goes to the Landowner
10Economic Rent and Commercial Rent
11The Cause of Economic Rent
12CHAPTER II LANDOWNERSHIP IN HISTORY
13No Private Ownership in Pre-Agricultural Conditions
14How the Change Probably Took Place
15Limited Character of Primitive Common Ownership
16Private Ownership General in Historical Times
17Conclusions from History
18CHAPTER III THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST PRIVATE LANDOWNERSHIP
19Arguments by Socialists
20Henry George's Attack on the Title of First Occupancy
21His Defence of the Title of Labour
22The Right of All Men to the Bounty of the Earth
23The Alleged Right of the Community to Land Values
24CHAPTER IV PRIVATE OWNERSHIP THE BEST SYSTEM OF LAND TENURE
25The Socialist Proposals Impracticable
26Inferiority of the Single Tax System
27CHAPTER V PRIVATE LANDOWNERSHIP A NATURAL RIGHT
28Three Principal Kinds of Natural Rights
29Private Landownership Indirectly Necessary for Individual Welfare
30Excessive Interpretations of the Right of Private Landownership
31The Doctrine of the Fathers and Theologians
32The Teaching of Pope Leo XIII
33CHAPTER VI LIMITATIONS ON THE LANDOWNER'S RIGHT TO RENT
34The Tenant's Right to a Decent Livelihood
35The Labourer's Claim Upon the Rent
36CHAPTER VII DEFECTS OF THE EXISTING LAND SYSTEM
37Landownership and Monopoly
38Excessive Gains from Private Landownership
39Exclusion from the Land
40CHAPTER VIII METHODS OF REFORMING OUR LAND SYSTEM
41The Leasing System
42Public Agricultural Lands
43Public Ownership of Urban Land
44Appropriating Future Increases of Land Value
45Some Objections to the Increment Tax
46The Morality of the Proposal
47The German and British Increment Taxes
48Transferring Other Taxes to Land
49The Morality of the Plan
50Amount of Taxes Practically Transferable
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