IS THE IDEA OF SOCIAL-JUSTICE MEANINGFUL

Hayek claimed that the idea of social justice is meaningless in a mark et economy because in that context, no identifiable agent intentionall y brings about the distribution of wealth, But the assumption that the existence of injustice entails an identifiable agent of injustice is erroneous. Moreover, Hayek ignores the fact that in a market economy, the broad pattern of economic outcomes is foreseeable even If detailed , person-by-person outcomes are not. Hayek's rejection of the idea of social justice reveals a striking naivete about his own ethical presup positions.