ABSTRACT
Economists and philosophers often approach the issue of distributive justice differently. Moreover, while moral issues were of great concern to earlier economists, modern economists have largely been content with an intellectual division of labor that defers what they call “equity” issues to philosophers, allowing economists to concentrate on analysis, or “positive” theory.1 Based on the conviction that both economists and philosophers have something valuable to contribute to the conversation about economic justice, Chapter 3 has been organized as a mock trial where capitalists and rentiers are accused of the crime of being economic parasites as a convenient way to incorporate first economists and then philosophers into the discussion.
