What Kinds of Economic Inequality Really Matter?

Thomas E. Weisskopf ()
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Thomas E. Weisskopf: University of Michigan

Chapter Chapter 4 in Perspectives on Economic Development and Policy in India, 2017, pp 83-103 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter discusses the major reasons why economic inequality should be a source of concern and the forms of inequality that are principally implicated. It considers ten different arguments as to why inequality matters—two of them moral, two political, three economic, and three social. In each case it discusses the economic variable(s) whose unequal distribution is at issue, whether economic class inequality or ethnic group inequality is most salient, and what part(s) of the unequal distribution are the most problematic—i.e., is the problem primarily poverty at the lower end, privilege at the upper end, bipolarization, or the entire distribution?

Keywords: Political economy; Economic inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3150-2_4

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