The greatest of all Plagues: How economic inequality shaped political thought from Plato to Marx

By:

Williams, David Lay

Publication details: Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 2024.Description: xv, 403p., note., bib., ind., 24 cm X 16 cmISBN:

9780691171975

Subject(s):

-- income distribution -- distributive justice -- equality -- economic aspects -- political stability -- philosophers

DDC classification:

339.2

List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals 24 Feb 2025

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Content:

Plato: "the greatest of all plagues" -- The New Testament: "the eye of a needle" -- Thomas Hobbes: "too much abundance" -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "the ever-widening inequality of fortunes" -- Adam Smith: "a combination of the rich to oppress the poor" -- John Stuart Mill: "the widening breach" -- Karl Marx: "the social gulf" -- Conclusion: the lessons of canonical wisdom on inequality.

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