A short history of distributive justice / Samuel Fleischacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleischacker, Samuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distributive justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century. This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era--a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. From Aristotle to Adam Smith

2. The Eighteenth Century

3. From Babeuf to Rawls

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.

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ISBN:

9780674263468

0674263464

9780674036987

0674036980

OCLC:

651716785