Economic growth without distributive justice is bound to breed violence.
Growth, as a concept and as a process, is natural for humankind. As living beings, we physically grow throughout our lives. As social beings, we witness our traditions and culture evolve, and as economic beings, we watch the expansion of our spheres of activity. At the heart of the expanding human capacity to venture out into fields unexplored, lays the ever-important notion of economic growth. Understood as the increase in the production of goods and services in an economy, the effect of economic growth spills out in every dimension of human life. It determines our access to primary social goods, such as our political and legal rights, responsibilities, and duties. It regulates the power an entity – individual or institution, holds over others, by controlling our income and wealth. Consequently, it also maintains a firm hold on the social bases of self-respect and dignity we possess. Therefore, it becomes necessary that the very understanding of economic growth a...