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

This volume explores how excessive economic inequality gives the best-off considerably more political influence than average citizens, thereby violating political equality.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

This volume explores how excessive economic inequality gives the best-off considerably more political influence than average citizens, thereby violating political equality.

Product details

• Authors: Nunzio (University of Catania Ali, Nunzio Alì
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2022
• EAN: 9780367756987
• ISBN: 978-0-367-75698-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Political science and theory, Society and culture: general, Economic theory and philosophy