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Entitlement Theory of Distributive Justice
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Justice in Acquisition
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Justice in Transfer
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Justice in Rectification
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| Deals with the initial acquisition of previously unowned resources, what types of things can be owned, and so forth. |
How one person can acquire holdings from another, including voluntary exchange, gifts & abandonment/squatting. |
Deals with holdings that are unjustly acquired or transferred, long past transgressions, injustices done by government, etc. |
| Sufficient use of an unowned resource, aka homesteading. "Sufficient" is determined by local consensus and/or natural law principles. |
Voluntary trade or gift. Abandonment criteria are strong, i.e. favoring current owners - aka neo-Lockean, no-proviso Lockean, or sticky property. |
Stolen property should be returned to rightful owner. |
| A just transfer creates legitimate ownership. |
| A successful theft creates legit ownership. |
| Voluntary trade or gift. Weak abandonment criteria; no absentee ownership. |
Rothbardian, transactional, or semi-pacifist. |
| Voluntary trade or gift, only between worker collectives for capital goods. |
Rothbardian, transactional, or semi-pacifist. |
| Voluntary trade or gift among communes, and with other outside entities. |
Rothbardian, transactional, or semi-pacifist. |
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Rothbardian
Sticky Property |
Transaction Based
Sticky Property |
Semi-pacifist
Sticky Property |
Mutualist
Possession Property |
Collectivist
Collective Property |
Communist
Collective Property |
The Entitlement Theory was developed by Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
