Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marginal Utility, Thomas Piketty, Economic Inequality
30 Mar 2017
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Read: swift, 143-164 votecompass. com to take a survey* The appeal to nature (men and women are different) Gender-egalitarian policy implication of the appeal to nature. Why, on the culture view, there is inequality of opportunity. Change both the female norms and the male norms. Transform the culture to an acceptance of public childcare. U. s. president obama on the defining challenge of our time. Self-respect depends on what you can do relative to other people. Exclusion from common life leads to a lack of self respect. Self-respect requires participation in society on relatively equal terms with others. Economic inequality is bad for those who have less. Being economically worse off is itself harmful to your health. Economic equality is bad for communal, fraternal, or solidaristic social relations. But solidarity is not as uncontroversially valuable as self-respect or health. Goods such that you can give someone more only by giving others less.
