Economic Inequality and Morality - Diverse Ethical Perspectives (Paperback)

Examining inequality through the lenses of moral traditions. Rising inequality has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years from scholars and politicians, but the moral dimensions of inequality tend to be ignored. Is inequality morally acceptable? Is it morally permissible to allow practices and systems that contribute to inequality? Is there an ethical obligation to try to alleviate inequality, and if so, who is obligated to take that action? This book addresses these and similar questions not through a single lens of morality but through a comparative study of ethical traditions, both secular and religious, Western and non-Western. The moral and political traditions considered are: liberalism, Marxism, natural law, feminism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and Confucianism. The types of inequality examined include property, natural resources, products, wealth, income, jobs, and taxation. The editors open the book with an introduction providing information on contemporary dimensions of the problem of economic inequality, and the book concludes with a summary of the perspectives represented. Economic Inequality and Morality is unusual in that it addresses similarities and differences on the questions of inequality within and across moral traditions. Authors of the individual studies answer a common set of topic-related questions, giving the reader a broad perspective on how a broad range of traditions view and respond to inequality.

General

Imprint:	Brookings Institution Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
Release date:	August 2019
Editors:	Richard Madsen • William M. Sullivan
Dimensions:	221 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-8157-3719-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-8157-3719-X
Barcode:	9780815737193

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