Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism
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- ISBN 9781526114020
- Weight: 367g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book arose out of a friendship between a political philosopher and an economic sociologist, and their recognition of an urgent political need to address the extreme inequalities of wealth and power in contemporary societies.
It provides a new analysis of what generates inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies. By critiquing Marx’s foundational theory of exploitation, it moves beyond Marx, both in its analysis of inequality, and in its concept of just distribution. It points to the major historical transformations that create educational and knowledge inequalities, inequalities in rights to public goods that combine with those to private wealth. It argues that asymmetries of economic power are inherently gendered and racialized, and that forms of coercion and slavery are deeply embedded in the histories of capitalism.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalities
Mark Harvey is Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex and Honorary Professor, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
Norman Geras (1943 – 2013), political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester
