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economic justice  

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  • The moral philosopher and political economist Adam Smith asserted that “justice … is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice [of society]. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society … must in a moment crumble into atoms” (Smith 1976a [1790], 86). What this pillar should look like, and how it should be constructed, are perennial questions that scholars and practitioners of leadership have debated before and after Smith. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Economic Justice]

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