What kinds of inequality should economists address?
(2021) Combating Inequality — ISBN: [9780262363532], p. 49-57, published
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- “I think that in no country in the civilized world is there less interest in philosophy than in the United States,” Alexis de Tocqueville (1835) wrote in the opening sentence of the second volume of Democracy in America. Assuming that this is still the case today, it is a very special honor but also a special responsibility for our little team of philosophers to be invited by our economist colleagues in this unphilosophical yet civilized country to help identify the kind(s) of inequality they should address against the background of robust convictions about why one should care about inequality.
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Van Parijs, P. (2021). What kinds of inequality should economists address? In Blanchard Olivier and Rodrik Dani (ed.), Combating Inequality (p. p. 49-57). The Mit Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13469.001.0001