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Sprawiedliwość międzypokoleniowa w międzynarodowym prawie środowiska
Social justice and Economic Activity

Author(s): Andrzej Powałowski
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Law on Economics, Sociology of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

Summary/Abstract: Justice is a category which empowerment is located in a man, and consequently, in human groups - communities and organizations created by people. It is commonly accepted that justice means: relationships between people or their institutions, proper distribution of goods, impartiality, adequate decisions making, applying the same moral and ethical measures to own behavior and the behavior of other people and using the same criteria to the assessment of the behavior of different social actors. Justice is also such organization of the social and economic system that provides everyone with an equal access to different kinds of goods, services, intangibles or at least with a chance for equal (fair) access. In relation to the economy and economic activity, justice is combined with equality to a significant extent. It is about equal opportunities for starting a business, equal opportunities to obtain the right position in the area of the economy and to maintain this position as well as the equal rights and obligations of entrepreneurs engaged in economic activity. Justice in economic activity should also be combined with the need (necessity) to meet legal requirements.Social justice is a concept characterizing the principle expressed in the Constitution. This principle should be treated as a condition and a requirement addressed to the legislator to create a system of law and legal order, including formal law, according to the principle of social justice.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XXXV
  • Page Range: 373-383
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish