Inequality
PHIL 178Z
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Growing economic inequality is said to be one of the defining challenges of our time. In this class, we will consider some of the main problems thought to be raised by inequality through the lens of several systematic ways of thinking about social justice. Topics to be addressed include inequality of income and wealth, inequality of opportunity, gender and racial inequality, unemployment and poverty, unauthorized migration, authority in the workplace, incarceration and policing, threats to democratic institutions, and the fairness of elections. Special attention will be paid to Rawls’s liberal theory of justice and its critics.
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