Realizing equality in policy / edited by Alexander Kaufman.

Other author Kaufman, Alexander, 1958- editor.
Format Book
PublicationAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2025]
Descriptionx, 256 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Equality--Government policy.
Democracy.
Social policy.
Economic policy.

Contents Introduction / Alexander Kaufman -- Rawlsian anticapitalism and left solidarity / Jon Garthoff -- Political liberalism and the dismantling of the gendered division of labor / Anca Gheaus -- Democratic equality and basic social institutions / Alexander Kaufman -- What's left of luck egalitarianism? / Shlomi Segall -- Why Kant is sooner socialist than Toronto liberal / Nicholas Vrousalis -- Egalitarianism and Nordic social democracy / Richard Arneson -- Discrimination, distribution, and the mega-rich / Mollie Gerver -- How to conceive a pluralistic metric of justice? : the example of Sen's and Nussbaum's conception of capability / Ortrud Lessmann -- Liberal democratic foreign policy, international toleration, and welfare state capitalism / David Reidy -- Equality and the distributive argument for paternalism / Steven Wall.
Abstract "Economic and social inequality have become defining features of the world economy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While increased inequality has been particularly pronounced in the United States, a similar phenomenon of increasing inequality of incomes and wealth has emerged in the economies of most major western European states. Realizing Equality in Policy brings together leading scholars to address current issues relating to rising inequality as it affects policy in the areas of education, health care, anti-poverty, employment, and economic policy. With contributions from scholars of both luck and relational egalitarianism, the essays reexamine a number of basic assumptions regarding social and economic policy from an egalitarian perspective. They explore gender-based discrimination, international justice, and the possibility for engagement between socialist and left-liberal thought. Rather than focusing on the subtle distinctions that divide egalitarian views, this volume shows that both views have the potential to offer important insights about how differences might be overcome and gaps might be closed. In offering new directions for solving wealth inequality through policy, Realizing Equality in Policy contributes to ongoing conversations in political theory, economic theory, and moral philosophy."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Realizing equality in policy Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025 9780472222216
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