Distributive justice: some institutional implication of Rawls' Theory of Justice

Distributive justice combines Philosophy;, economics, and jurisprudence in an attempt to establish the fundamental theory by which wealth and resources are allocated among the members of a society. The need for a rationally based distributive system to allocate resources in an organized society arises from the insufficiency of available resources to fulfill the conflicting desires of society members. Despite the adoption of various distributive theories through the centuries, the question of what constitutes a just distributive system remains unanswered.