Dear Readers:
This week I offer some reflections of Ramiro Pinto. Recently published on his personal blog
http://ramiropinto.es/2010/11/15/ideas-de-justicia/ \u200b\u200b
Greetings
ideas of justice.
's book
Amartya Sen " The ideas of justice "leads to a reflection that the author comes close, but fails completely to it. It is in the description of facts, which clearly defined, but we must join another of his books: " Reconsideration equality", which asks Equality of What ? .
An example that Sen puts it is very dramatic. Presents us there are three children and a flute, to which we give them?. One says he's The only one who can play. Another is poor and he is the only one not have toys. And the third says that it is those who have it.
We can argue whether those who have it have the right to have your own, but we think that just made another one can do that better than anything else is poor, but better to know how to use that, otherwise why want it?, etc. We will believe we defend what we think is more fair, when we do is defend our idea of \u200b\u200bjustice and our mentality.
Therefore be analyzed whose idea of \u200b\u200bjustice must be applied at all times. why Amartya Sen
intends to apply reason to understand justice, especially social justice, aiming, aims to eliminate poverty. This requires different solutions, depending on when you want to apply and the status of a particular group and society in general.
Many times in these discussions about what should be social justice fall in positions that pose different languages. The book includes a reflection on the philosophy of language, wondering what are the logical forms?.
Sen tries to overcome what the political philosopher, Jerry Cohen calls "illusions objective" those ideas that are generally utopian to believe, often collectively, "our understanding of the outside world is anchored on our experiences and our thinking. "
This is what happens in the current economic thinking so that changing the reality we anchored in yesterday's solutions do not work. We need a change of mentalities
d. And as indicated by Jon Elster act from sufficient reasons. Otherwise we are falling into what Herbert Simon called bounded rationality . "
The conclusion
Sen is that different approaches are needed to understand the various theories of justice. So if we link it with his theory of poverty we see that makes an innovative approach, critical of the ideas of John Ralws , being poor considering the lack of developing individual capacities. Which opens a framework as to the basis of equality and freedom as the foundations of social policy and development practice of justice soci al. It goes beyond lack of income, but it binds to the lack of substantive liberty.
ago a very interesting analysis on the relationship between economic development and democratic models, explaining that freedom is a guarantor of economic development. When democracy works from the corruption institicionalizada
affects economic development.
The issue is to implement all these ideas in new patterns of economic thought for example to achieve an equal basis, allowing
democratize the economy , which Gieger López Garrido defended while leading the New Left Party and seems to have forgotten to take institutional positions .
is why I think that fits these innovative ideas Basic Income,
which is simply a measure that serves as a support for the adaptation process of the economy to the new reality defined by globalization, technological progress, the financial strength of the economy against the production, and the imperative of achieving a sustainable development , which has caused the states to sign the Kyoto protocol without anyone met because of the need to create jobs. Such as keeping the coal mining, the form of subsidies, making it impossible to reduce emissions of CO2.
However, the ideas trapped in inertia have been awarded the 2010 Nobel laureate in economics, Americans Peter A.
Diamond
, Dale T. Mortensen and British Cypriot Christopher A. Pissarides, unemployment scholars, who advocate a greater intensity of active employment policies. Or argue that subsidies do increase unemployment, which is sufficient to analyze the large number of unemployed without coverage, nor found a job. This award indicates to us where they will go for the shots of the economic policies of the next few months, then the result will not give to look for other formulas. not examine environmental consequences of their "solutions."
They ask these Nobel Prize in economics how is it that so many people out of work while there jobs?. Propose to redefine unemployment coverage, so as to exert pressure on people to accept any job and in any condition, instead of seeing it will be necessary to adjust the wage offer to the needs and requirements of the job application.
wants to justify is that lack of training is not finding work, which is not true, but serves to justify training courses useless most of the time and require many hours of unpaid work was considered "training practices", which remove the unemployed from the unemployment lists and play well with the statistics. Something they have accepted the majority indicato s
.
We raise anchor in our minds, renew
economic thinking and move forward booming plain sailing ... would say our beloved poet José de Espronceda Extremadura. Ramiro Pinto
Until this year we had not suffered so much regression in rights and freedoms granted by the current welfare state. 
