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How Rich Should the 1% Be?: Proportional Justice and Economic Inequality book cover

1st Edition

How Rich Should the 1% Be? Proportional Justice and Economic Inequality

By Nunzio Alì Copyright 2023
206 Pages
by Routledge India

206 Pages
by Routledge India

206 Pages
by Routledge India
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How rich should the 1% be? And, most importantly, when does the distance in economic resources between the richest citizens and ‘us’, the average citizenry, become a concern for justice? This volume explores how excessive economic inequality gives the best-off considerably more political influence than average citizens, thereby violating political equality. It argues that the gap between the... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction: What Is Wrong, If Anything, with Economic Inequality?

1 Who Has the Power to Establish and Shape Primary Rules? Why the Size of Material Inequality Matters

2 What Does It Mean to Be Dominated?

3 Inequality and Proportionality in Current Distributive Theories of Justice

4 The Principle of Proportionality

Conclusion

Index

Biography

Nunzio Alì is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Catania, Italy, and a former postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (2018–2020). He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (2018), and is the coordinator of the Colloquium Philosophy & Global Affairs (Department of Political and Social Sciences – University of Catania). His main research interests concern theories of justice, economic inequality, power, and human rights.

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