Realizing equality in policy / edited by Alexander Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaufman, Alexander, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Equality.

Economic rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Summary:

Economic and social inequality have become defining features of the world economy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While increased inequality has been particularly pronounced in the United States, a similar phenomenon of increasing inequality of incomes and wealth has emerged in the economies of most major western European states. Realizing Equality in Policy brings together leading scholars to address current issues relating to rising inequality as it affects policy in the areas of education, health care, anti-poverty, employment, and economic policy. With contributions from scholars of both luck and relational egalitarianism, the essays reexamine a number of basic assumptions regarding social and economic policy from an egalitarian perspective. They explore gender-based discrimination, international justice, and the possibility for engagement between socialist and left-liberal thought. Rather than focusing on the subtle distinctions that divide egalitarian views, this volume shows that both views have the potential to offer important insights about how differences might be overcome and gaps might be closed. In offering new directions for solving wealth inequality through policy, Realizing Equality in Policy contributes to ongoing conversations in political theory, economic theory, and moral philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction / Alexander Kaufman

Rawlsian anticapitalism and left solidarity / Jon Garthoff

Political liberalism and the dismantling of the gendered division of labor / Anca Gheaus

Democratic equality and basic social institutions / Alexander Kaufman

What's left of luck egalitarianism? / Shlomi Segall

Why Kant is sooner socialist than Toronto liberal / Nicholas Vrousalis

Egalitarianism and Nordic social democracy / Richard Arneson

Discrimination, distribution, and the mega-rich / Mollie Gerver

How to conceive a pluralistic metric of justice? : the example of Sen's and Nussbaum's conception of capability / Ortrud Lessmann

Liberal democratic foreign policy, international toleration, and welfare state capitalism / David Reidy

Equality and the distributive argument for paternalism / Steven Wall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-22221-X