City Gloss

The primary goals of a liberal social order are: assurance of fundamental rights/human rights secure peace and freedom sustained basis of economic and ecological life of the population has a central role in the achievement of these objectives in addition to the freedom, justice. Freedom and justice are the starting point of a liberal society that treats its members fair, reasonable and just. John Rawls writes in his book a theory of Justice”: justice is the first virtue of social institutions, such as the truth in systems of thought. A still so elegant and economical means working theory must be dropped if it is not true; as well as well functioning and well adapted to the laws and institutions need to be amended or abolished, if they are unjust. “In the political discourse there are mainly differences over the principles of social justice, i.e.

the principles, the distribution of goods” rules within a society. Liberal justice above all equality of opportunity means everyone should get a fair chance at a self-determined and independent life. This means that everyone should receive regardless of its origin, access to education and work backed up his living. The State should provide a qualified education and support the economic activities of its citizens. The market should decide about the distribution of the goods then so the individual dispositions of households and companies, which decide themselves about their needs and regulate the distribution of resources through their interaction on markets for goods and factors of production (labour, land and capital). An efficient distribution of goods then ensure the decisions of consumers on shop counters, which in their totality of success and failure, as well as about the price of a product or service decide and thus determine their value. A just and efficient economy can through decentralized planning, i.e. market economy be achieved. The basics of markets are the individual decision processes of people, households and represent companies that choose between to pondering alternatives, compare the costs and benefits, and align their conduct on incentives.