Distributive Justice

John A. Ryan

[1927]

• Title Page
• Preface
• Contents

SECTION 1
The Morality of Private Land-Ownership and Rent

• Chapter 1:
  The Landowner's Share of the National Produce
• Chapter 2:
  Landownership in History
• Chapter 3:
  The Arguments Against Private Landownership
• Chapter 4:
  Private Ownership The Best System of Land Tenure
• Chapter 5:
  Private Landownership A Natural Right
• Chapter 6:
  Limitations of the Landowner's Right to Rent
• Chapter 7:
  Defects of the Existing Land System
• Chapter 8:
  Methods of Reforming Our Land System

SECTION 2
The Morality of Private Capital and Interest

• Chapter 9:
  The Nature and the Rate of Interest
• Chapter 10:
  The Alleged Right of Labor to the Entire Product
• Chapter 11:
  The Socialist Scheme of Industry
• Chapter 12:
  Alleged Intrinsic Justifications of Interest
• Chapter 13:
  Social and Presumptive Justifications of Interest
• Chapter 14:
  Cooperation a Partial Solvent of Capitalism

SECTION 3
The Moral Aspects of Profits

• Chapter 15:
  The Nature of Profits
• Chapter 16:
  The Principal Canons of Distributive Justice
• Chapter 17:
  Just Profits in Conditions of Competition
• Chapter 18:
  The Moral Aspect of Monopoly
• Chapter 19:
  The Moral Aspect of Stock Watering
• Chapter 20:
  The Legal Limitation of Fortunes
• Chapter 21:
  The Duty of Distributing Superfluous Wealth

SECTION 4
The Moral Aspect of Wages

• Chapter 22:
  Some Unacceptable Theories of Wage Justice
• Chapter 23:
  The Minimum of Justice; A Living Wage
• Chapter 24:
  The Problem of Complete Wage Justice
• Chapter 25:
  Methods of Increasing Wages
• Chapter 26:
  Summary and Conclusion

• Index