Local Justice: How Institutions Allocate Scarce Goods and Necessary Burdens

by Jon Elster

Book Overview

The well-being of individuals routinely depends on their success in obtaining goods and avoiding burdens distributed by society. Local Justice offers the first systematic analysis of the principles and procedures used in dispensing "local justice" in situations as varied as the admission of students to college, the choice of patients for organ transplants, the selection of workers for layoffs, and the induction of men into the army. A prominent theorist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871542315
• ISBN13: 9780871542311
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.