Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice.

Deutsch, Morton

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ERIC Number: EJ133723

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Publication Date: 1975

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Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice

Deutsch, Morton

Journal of Social Issues, 31, 3, 137-150, Sum 75

Suggests that equity is only one of many possible principles of distributive justice and outlines some of the issues relating to a broader conception of distributive justice, discussing the question of which of several basic principles of distributive justice will be employed by a group. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Civil Rights, Decision Making, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Justice, Moral Values, Psychological Needs, Resource Allocation, Responses, Social Psychology, Social Structure

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