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Rawls and Piketty: the philosophical aspects of economic inequality

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This paper discusses a key contemporary problem, that of inequality. Certainly, the most visible inequality today is economic inequality, which is not only a characteristic found today, but is also the result of a long historical development. The problem arises when inequality becomes artificial (produces itself) and thus becomes a matter of social sciences and humanities. At this point, the question of economic inequality becomes a non-economic issue and thus opens the possibility of formulating such principles that will be able to reduce the issue to a minimum. This paper discusses this possibility, while referring to Thomas Piketty's book on capital in relation to John Rawls's principles of justice to which Piketty refers to.
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hal-03710677 , version 1 (30-06-2022)

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Goran Sunajko. Rawls and Piketty: the philosophical aspects of economic inequality. Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2016, Volume IX Issue 2 (2), pp.71-84. ⟨10.46298/jpe.10688⟩. ⟨hal-03710677⟩
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