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Achieving Income Justice in Professional Sports: Limitation, Taxation, or Donation

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Schweiger G.

Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research

2012

vol. 56

issue 1

12-22

This paper is based on the assumption that the high incomes of some professional sports athletes, such as players in professional leagues in the United States and Europe, pose an ethical problem of social justice. I deal with the questions of what should follow from this evaluation and in which ways those incomes should be regulated. I discuss three different options: a) the idea that the incomes of professional athletes should be limited, b) the idea that they should be vastly taxed by the state, and c) the idea that there is a moral obligation for the athletes to spend portions of their incomes on good causes. I will conclude that in today’s circumstances there are good reasons to advocate both option one (limitation) and option two (taxation), but that priority should be given to taxation.

Education Legitimates Income Inequality: Normative Beliefs in Early Post-Communist and Market-oriented Nations

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Evans M. D. R., Kelley J.

Polish Sociological Review

2017

vol. 200

issue 4

441-463

Using data from large, representative national samples in in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands, we examine moral norms about just rewards for education. Comparing these norms in East Central Europe shortly after Communism-where the dominant ideology was egalitarian, schooling free, rewards to education modest, and alternative investments absent-and in market-oriented societies where the opposite held, provides insight into the influence of institutional arrangements on moral norms. We find that the publics in all these countries favor large rewards for education (which legitimates substantial income inequality), showing that these moral norms are resilient to institutional arrangements. These results align with Aristotle’s claim that people believe job performance merits reward because it makes valuable contributions. They undermine alternative theories: credentialism, radical egalitarianism, and the hegemonic power of dominant political elites. These results also undermine economists’ human capital arguments insofar as they are seen as a moral justification for income inequality.

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Achieving Income Justice in Professional Sports: Limitation, Taxation, or Donation

Education Legitimates Income Inequality: Normative Beliefs in Early Post-Communist and Market-oriented Nations