Shlomi Segall

Why Inequality Matters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and defends the view that inequality is intrinsically bad when and because it leads to arbitrary disadvantage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781107129818
• ISBN-10: 1107129818
• Artikelnr.: 45153714

Autorenporträt

Shlomi Segall is an associate professor at the Program in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Health, Luck, and Justice (2010) and Equality and Opportunity (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Egalitarianism: 1. The variety of objections to equality
2. Why inequality matters
3. When does inequality matter?
4. Who is inequality bad for?
Part II. Alternatives to Egalitarianism: 5. What is the point of sufficiency?
6. Prioritarianism and the person-affecting view
7. Prioritarianism and time
Part III. Chances and Choices: 8. Should egalitarians care about chances?
9. The badness of voluntary inequalities.