| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YABUSHITA Shiro Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (30083330)
IIJIMA Shozo Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (80130863)
FUNAKI Yukihiko Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (50181433)
UMEMORI Naoyuki Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (80213502)
KAWAGISHI Norikazu Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Professor, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (10224742)
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| Research Abstract |
The conclusion which we obtain in this research project is as follows. First, there is no complete correspondence between the political system and the economic system as well as the economic development, and the economic consequence. But the democratic political system requests market economy. Second, idea of market economy is freedom and efficiency, on the other hand, idea of democracy is respect of personality and fairness. The possibility of reconciling both ideas had been pursued by the welfare state, but several severe conditions are necessarily required in their actual compatibility. Generally speaking, idea of democracy contradicts idea of market economy, and also the market system and democracy are often conflicting with each other. Third, the government which appears in order to overcome the market failure comes into another type of failure. Perhaps egalitarian policies cannot be achieved by democratic systems.
The concrete results of individual researches are as follows. First
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, with the consideration regarding the methodology of political economy, we verified the necessity which makes clear the role of positive theory and normative theory when we promote expanded dialogue among the political science, economics, and jurisprudence. Second, political requirement of distribution/redistribution policy and education policy is decided irrespectively of the economic performance, and does not connect directly to egalitarianism conclusion or prioritarianism conclusion. Third, how the important principles in the history of thought are related with the actual system design depends on the correlation between historical conditions of each country and value idea of the existing system. Forth, when we reexamined social contract theory, the role of social contract and the egalitarianism in system designing was made clear. Fifth, the forward-looking agenda in social contract theory is consistency between the concept of cooperation imbedded in the contract of the social system and the modern ideas such as the concept of the public as well as privacy. John Roemer's criticism to the normative theory being reexamined, we have advanced the research regarding the role of"the veil of ignorance" to derive justice principles. Sixth, the axiomatic research of justice principles was applied to the case of the maximin principle for the problem of equity between the generations. Less
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