The Significance of Inequality: Between Economics and Philosophy

Project overview

Economics and political philosophy are both concerned with questions of distributive justice, and both disciplines have made significant breakthroughs in understanding problems of inequality. Nevertheless, each discipline pays scant attention to the insights of the other. This project will show what economists can learn from political philosophers in thinking about economic inequality while also investigating the philosophical significance of recent empirical work on inequality, within economics and elsewhere. Each discipline can be significantly enriched by the insights of the other in understanding the significance of inequality.

This project is funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Research Starts: 01/08/2013

Research Ends: 31/07/2015