Right Social Justice: better ways to help
the poor
Edited by Gary Johns
ISBN: 9781921421624
Binding: Paperback
Price: $29.95
For decades, Social Justice has been
trumpeted as the means of assisting the ‘downtrodden’. Rarely have any of its
proponents proved that it is other than an egalitarian ideology, without an
analytical base. Assisting the ‘poor’ may be a ‘good thing’ but only if
programs to aid them are effective and only if others are not made poor in the
process.
Too often, either the policy prescription or
the analyses of the social problem, or indeed both, are blinded by the ideology
of social justice.
The purpose of the book is to assist those
wedded to the principles of social justice, of whom there are many, to
understand that helping the poor is not straightforward. There are many
counterintuitive schemes to help the poor; they have little to do with the
right to income transfers. Indeed, most people have a non-egalitarian
conception of fairness, based on merit and effort, with equality running a poor
third. In these cases, social justice is seen as a form of insurance, not a
right.
Social justice often overplays its hand;
this book is a chance to find better ways to help the poor.
Chapters include
1. When too much social justice is never
enough- Gary Johns
2. Dimensions of the welfare state - Julie Novak
3. Are equal societies better societies? - Peter Saunders
4. When to stop government programs - Cassandra Wilkinson
5. Aboriginal programs: closing the gap is not socially just – Wesley Aird
6. Child protection: dysfunctional parents damage their children - Jeremy
Sammut
7. Community development: churches and charities – Ruth Limkin
8. Fair dismissal - Grace Collier
9. Foreign aid: road to hell filled with good intentions - Peter Urban
10. Preventable disease: whose responsibility? - Terry Barnes
11. Mutual obligation - Asher Judah
12. Helping the real refugees - Mirko Bagaric
13. Tax and transfer: shrewd politics - Sinclair Davidson
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