Thomas M. Scanlon is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is also the author of Why Does Inequality Matter?
Is economic inequality always objectionable? Are there situations where it is acceptable? If so, what conditions make economic inequality (and perhaps other types of inequality) just?
Inequality is not objectionable in itself. Objections to economic inequality depend either on its consequences, such as that it leads to unacceptable forms of political power, or on the unjustifiability of the institutional mechanisms that produce it, such as that they unjustifiably favor people in some positions over others.
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