ABSTRACT

How we distribute important economic and social goods in society is a perennial topic of philosophical, political, and economic discourse. Philosophers refer to these as questions of distributive justice. Discussions of distributive justice usually focus on justice within a particular country. This is because countries are the units in which goods get distributed. Canada, for example, decides how much inequality will exist in their society through their tax policy, how much the government will subsidize university education, and how strongly they will enforce non-discrimination policies in employment, etc. Questions of economic justice have traditionally been understood as domestic in nature.