The essays in this volume assess the empirical and theoretical questions raised by inequalities of income and wealth. Some consider empirical claims about the amount of equality in modern market economies, assessing the allegation that income and wealth have become more unequally distributed in the past quarter-century. Others consider the extent to which various government initiatives can ameliorate the problems inequality putatively poses. They consider which standards of equality meet the requirements of distributive justice. They also ask if inequality is intrinsically immoral, regardless of its consequences.
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'This book is a good initiation for theologians, or any others who want to engage in serious economic debate.' The Heythrop Journal
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The essays in this volume assess the empirical and theoretical questions raised by inequalities of income and wealth. Some of the essays consider empirical claims about the amount of equality in modern market economies, assessing the allegation that income and wealth have become more unequally distributed in the past quarter-century. Other essays consider the extent to which various government initiatives can ameliorate the problems inequality putatively poses. Some of the essays consider which standards of equality meet the requirements of distributive justice. Still others ask if inequality is intrinsically immoral regardless of its consequences.
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A central idea of contemporary philosophical egalitarianism's theory of justice is that involuntary inequalities or disadvantages-those that arise through no choice or fault of one's own-should be minimized or rectified in some way. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sibling parity, good brute luck, valuable responsiveness, attaining sufficiency, wealth parity, reasonable benevolence, egalitarian confusion, bad brute luck, rational responsiveness, nonworking men, unequal life prospects, sufficiency doctrine, brute bad luck, broad egalitarianism, benevolent conduct, domestic welfare state, conditional aid, impersonal value, gross profit share, involuntary disadvantage, liberal egalitarian theories, proportionate taxation, option luck, sufficiency threshold, coercive transfers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Census Bureau, Social Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Historical Income Tables, David Schmidtz, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Federal Reserve, Basic Books, John Rawls, Policy Foundation, Ronald Dworkin, Government Printing Office, Hillel Steiner, Adam Smith, Economic Report of the President, Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, World Bank, Losing Ground, University of Chicago Press, Tyler Cowen, World War New!
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A central idea of contemporary philosophical egalitarianism's theory of justice is that involuntary inequalities or disadvantages-those that arise through no choice or fault of one's own-should be minimized or rectified in some way. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sibling parity, good brute luck, valuable responsiveness, attaining sufficiency, wealth parity, reasonable benevolence, egalitarian confusion, bad brute luck, rational responsiveness, nonworking men, unequal life prospects, sufficiency doctrine, brute bad luck, broad egalitarianism, benevolent conduct, domestic welfare state, conditional aid, impersonal value, gross profit share, involuntary disadvantage, liberal egalitarian theories, proportionate taxation, option luck, sufficiency threshold, coercive transfers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Census Bureau, Social Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Historical Income Tables, David Schmidtz, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Federal Reserve, Basic Books, John Rawls, Policy Foundation, Ronald Dworkin, Government Printing Office, Hillel Steiner, Adam Smith, Economic Report of the President, Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, World Bank, Losing Ground, University of Chicago Press, Tyler Cowen, World War New!
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- Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (For and Against) by David Schmidtz on 8 pages
- Equality and Partiality by Thomas Nagel on 7 pages
- An Essay on Rights by Hillel Steiner on 5 pages
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 5 pages
- Equal Justice (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Eric Rakowski on 5 pages
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