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Why Does Inequality Matter? (Paperback)
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Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M.
Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater
equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason
people have for objecting to the difference between what they have
and what others have, as opposed simply to wanting to be better
off. This book examines six such reasons. Inequality can be
objectionable because it arises from a failure of some agent to
give equal concern to the interests of different parties to whom it
is obligated to provide some good. It can be objectionable because
it involves or gives rise to objectionable inequalities in status.
It can be objectionable because it gives the rich unacceptable
forms of control over the lives of those who have less. It can be
objectionable because it interferes with the procedural fairness of
economic institutions, or because it deprives some people of
substantive opportunity to take part in those institutions.
Inequality can be objectionable because it interferes with the
fairness of political institutions. Finally, inequality in wealth
and income can be objectionable because it is unfair: the
institutional mechanisms that produce it cannot be justified in the
relevant way. Scanlon's aims is to provide a moral anatomy of these
six reasons, and the ideas of equality that they involve. He also
examines objections to the pursuit of equality on the ground that
it involves objectionable interference with individual liberty, and
argues that ideas of desert do not provide a basis either for
justifying significant economic inequality or for objecting to it.
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