1st Edition

Just Price Theory Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Insights

Edited By Matías Petersen, Joaquín Reyes Copyright 2026
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to just price theory, focusing on the conceptual and normative (moral, legal, and political) implications of the concept of the just price. This volume brings together world-leading experts in the fields of political and legal philosophy to explore the political economy of justice in pricing and socio-legal aspects surrounding the idea of just... Read more

Introduction
Joaquín Reyes and Matías Petersen

Chapter 1: Economics and the Virtue of Justice
James Gordley

Chapter 2: Bad Paretianism, or: Why Some Goods Don’t Have a Just Price
Savriël Dillingh

Chapter 3: Price, Risk, and Exploitation
Julian D. Jonker

Chapter 4: Wage Exploitation and the Metric of Fairness
Stanislas Richard

Chapter 5: In Search of the Wrongdoer Behind Unjust Prices
Aditi Bagchi

Chapter 6: The Grammar of the Price: The Relevance of the Unit of Account
Gissella López

Chapter 7: Practices, Institutions, and Justice in pricing
Joaquín Reyes and Matías Petersen

Chapter 8: Durkheim’s Sociological Concept of the “Just Price”
Jean–François Colomban

Chapter 9: The Just Price in Saga-Period Iceland and the Gray Goose laws
Åsbjørn Melkevik

Biography

Matías Petersen is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Chile.

Joaquín Reyes is Assistant Professor at the School of Law at Universidad San Sebastian, Chile.