In the United States, inequality in the distribution of economic rewards, such as income and
wealth, has widened greatly in recent decades. This has led to a spirited debate regarding …

Measured inequality has increased tremendously between the 1960s and 1990s, not only in
the United States but throughout the majority of industrial nations. Wages among people of …

Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define
a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and …

Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define
a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and …

During the last third of the twentieth century, political philosophers actively debated about
the content of distributive justice; the ruling ethical view of utilitarianism was challenged by …

To read the pronouncements of leading economic policymakers and commentators is to
immerse oneself in a sea of despair and alarm over the state of the American Dream …

This chapter suggests that inequality has both positive and negative effects. On the positive
side, differential rewards provide incentives for individuals to work hard, invest, and …

What is the role of equity in the process of development? Our proposed answer to this
question, which is discussed at greater length in the World Development Report 2006 …

There is surprisingly little research on American norms of economic inequality and
opportunity, particularly in the era of rising inequality since the 1980s. In this chapter, I …

What is economic inequality? At one level, economic inequality is a very obvious thing. It is a
state of the world in which some people are poor, perhaps thoroughly deprived, while others …