SUMMARY

The foregoing has led to the conclusion that global distributive justice should focus on the allocation of rights in capacities. The present chapter will conclude that two types of rights in capacities should be self-owned – owned by their holder, or “naturally” allocated. They are the rights to use and benefit from the use because of process-freedom, and all the rights in eudemonistic and consumptive capacities for the specific issue of global distributive justice in macrojustice. These are the respective topics of Sections 2 and 3. The distribuand will then be restricted to the rent of productive capacities, whose allocation is considered in Parts II and IV of this study.

RIGHTS IN CAPACITIES

Types of rights in assets

The analysis of process-freedom has shown that it has specific implications as concerns the allocation of rights in capacities. The consideration of possible rights in capacities to begin with rejoins this conclusion.

A person's capacity is a set of characteristics of this person. It has the nature of an asset. Rights concerning an asset can be divided into several categories defined by the permitted use of the asset or by advantages derived from it. The relevant distinction considers four types of rights in an asset: the right to destroy; rights to use (without destroying) or use-rights rights to receive the benefits from this use or benefit-rights and rights to the value of the availability of the services this asset can provide or rent-rights.