How Rich Should the 1% Be?

Proportional Justice and Economic Inequality
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-03864-3
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

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 best-off and the worst-off should not be reduced because it is good, but rather as an inescapable instrument to protect citizens from the risk of material domination. For this reason, it defends the ‘principle of proportionality’: economic inequality should not exceed a certain range or proportion to enable both the best-off and the worst-off to be co-authors of the legal, political, and socioeconomic rules that govern the ‘social’ relations in which they are involved.

Further, the book discusses material domination and explains how money influences politics and what are the remedies for this phenomenon; how social justice should face and harmonise power, poverty, efficiency, individual merit, and economic liberties; and, most importantly, how to determine income and wealth limit ratios in a liberal democracy.

A thoughtful investigation on the interdependencies of money and justice and their influence our socio-political systems, this volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of political theory, political philosophy, economics and development, economics theory and philosophy, and social policy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alì, Nunzio

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.