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By: on the left side… » Blog Archive » Ungleichheit

on the left side… » Blog Archive » Ungleichheit — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:45:19 +0000

[...] Dagegen seitens des neokonservativ - libertären Cato-Instituts Schmidtz und eine Kritik von Chris Bertram im Crooked Timber - Blog. Andrew Hacker hat übrigens just in der NYRB über “The Rich and Everyone Else” geschrieben - Class Matters. [...]

By: on the left side… :: Ungleichheit :: May :: 2006

on the left side… :: Ungleichheit :: May :: 2006 — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:37:30 +0000

[...] Thomas Pogge: “The statistics are horrifying. Out of a total of 6,373 million human beings (in 2004), about 1,000 million have no adequate shelter; 831 million are undernourished; 1,197 million have no access to safe water; 2,742 million lack access to basic sanitation; 2,000 million are without electricity; 2,000 million lack access to essential drugs; and 799 million adults are illiterate. About 170 million children between 5 and 14-years-old are involved in hazardous work (for example, in agriculture, construction, textile or carpet production); 8.4 million of them in the “unconditionally worst” forms of child labour, “defined as slavery, trafficking, debt bondage and other forms of forced labour, forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, prostitution and pornography, and illicit activities”. People of colour and females bear a disproportionate share of these deprivations. Roughly one third of all human deaths - about 50,000 daily - are due to poverty-related causes (pdf file 60KB), easily preventable through better nutrition, safe drinking water, mosquito nets, re-hydration packs, vaccines and other medicines. This amounts to 300 million deaths in just the 16 years since the end of the Cold War - more than the 200 million deaths caused by all the wars, civil wars, and government repression of the entire 20th century. Never has poverty been so easily avoidable. The collective annual expenditure of the 2,735 million people living below the World Bank’s “$2 a day” poverty line is about $400 billion. Their collective shortfall from that poverty line is roughly $300 billion per year. This is 1.1 per cent of the gross national incomes of the high-income countries, which totals $27,732 billion. These countries contain 15.5 per cent of the world’s population with over 80 per cent of the global product. The global poor are 43 per cent of the world’s population with 1.2 per cent of the global product. At market exchange rates, the per capita income of the former is nearly 200 times greater than that of the latter.” (s. auch detaillierter Pogge hier). Dagegen seitens des neokonservativ - libertären Cato-Instituts Schmidtz Comments » [...]

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By: אנקדוטות

אנקדוטות — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:13:59 +0000

לחשוב על הדברים קצת אחרת

The Cato Institute הינו מכון מחקר המזדהה עם התנועה הליברטריאנית ומקדם מחקרים ופרסומים בנושא חופש הפרט וזכויות האדם. אחד הפרסומים של המכון הינו במ…

By: Blog de test WordPress » When More is Worse: Schmidtz on Inequality

Blog de test WordPress » When More is Worse: Schmidtz on Inequality — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:51:20 +0000

[...] David Schmidtz, one of my favorite current philosophers, has an essay “When Inequality Matters” on the excellent* “Cato Unbound” website. At his best, Schmidtz offers a rare combination of thoughtfulness, and blunt, surprisingly personal prose.* [...]

By: Belligerati

Belligerati — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:17:05 +0000

Liberal egalitarianism

I found the article over at Cato Unbound, “When Inequality Matters”, a helpful and insightful look at what sorts of inequality matters and what do not. He discuses two different theory, equality as liberation (1 below) and equality as mitigating…

By: BizzyBlog.com » S.O.B. Alliance Member Porkopolis Is on a Roll

BizzyBlog.com » S.O.B. Alliance Member Porkopolis Is on a Roll — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:17:55 +0000

[...] “When Inequality Matters” points to a Cato-Unbound piece that nukes the “zero sum game” mindset and points to its stark dangers (shamless plug: a previous BizzyBlog post on income inequality is here). [...]

By: My Quiet Life » on inequality

My Quiet Life » on inequality — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:05:33 +0000

[...] Rev pointed me at this essay by David Schmidtz, saying that he thought it was the sort of thing that would annoy me (he was right), and that Reason’s Hit&Run had been talking about it a bit. I wanted to get my thoughts out here before I read the Reason commentary on it. [...]

By: Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Best of the Blogs: Bertram and Brighouse on Schmidtz

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:35:42 +0000

[...] David Schmidtz’s recent piece for Cato Unbound, When Inequality Matters is an artful and unnerving attempt to make use of some recent work within egalitarian political philosophy to argue against what we what we think of as the core of egalitarianism: the demands for greater equality of condition and opportunity. We are not convinced. In our view Schmidtz’s case neglects the impact that relative inequalities have on absolute levels of flourishing and depends at crucial points on dubious analogies and on muddying important distinctions. But it would be churlish not to acknowledge that he gets some things right. For instance, he is correct to emphasize that we must identify the dimensions in which equality matters, for the basic reason that making people equal on one dimension will often have the simple effect of making them unequal on another. Equalizing incomes, for example, would leave people unequal in well-being, because different people have different capacities to convert their income into well-being. [...]

By: Crooked Timber » » Against Schmidtz — for equality

Crooked Timber » » Against Schmidtz — for equality — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:52:44 +0000

[...] [This post is co-written by Harry and Chris and is an extended follow up to Chris’s initial response to David Schmidtz’s Cato Unbound piece When Equality Matters .] [...]

By: Outside Story

Outside Story — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:10:40 +0000

When Inequality Matters

If you have ever had the feeling that you’ve desparately trying to explain an idea when suddenly someone else explains it clearly and conscisely without apparent effort, then you will understand my feeling on reading David Schmitz’s essay When Equality

By: Whimsley

Whimsley — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:58:51 +0000

Stuff and Status

Where money speaks, there all law is silent - Anon, reign of Henry III (1216 - 1272). MarketThinkers like the Cato Institute, have a blind spot when it comes to inequality, and David Schmidtz has it in spades, judging from

By: leibniz » Disuguali come due gocce d’acqua

leibniz » Disuguali come due gocce d’acqua — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:24:25 +0000

[...] Il nuovo saggio del Cato � dedidato al concetto di disuguaglianza, differenza: perch� � importante e quand’� che conta. Naturalmente si parte dal concetto opposto. L’eguaglianza nelle nostre societ�, ad esempio, conta quando andare in una direzione vuol dire liberare mentre andare nell’altra vuol dire opprimere. Oppure ancora non si pu� prescindere dall’eguaglianza quando la scelta � tra portare prosperit� o lasciare le persone nell’indigenza. [...]

By: Ed Driscoll.com

Ed Driscoll.com — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:38:39 +0000

P.J. O’Rourke On The Tenth Commandment

Here’s a fun 1997 essay on Cato’s Website by P.J. O’Rourke on the dangers of redistributionism:The Bible might seem to be a strange place to be doing economic research, but I have been thinking, from a political economy point of…

By: Crooked Timber » » Cato on inequality

Crooked Timber » » Cato on inequality — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:50:37 +0000

[...] Will Wilkinson emails me to push a Cato Institute forum on When Inequality Matters . I see that he’s also emailed Glenn Reynolds to promote the same. The paper being discussed is by David Schmidtz. Schmidtz is a serious philosopher whose writings I’ve read with profit and interest in the past. Nevertheless, I have to greet his opening sentence with some skepticism: Everyone cares about inequality. [...]

By: Justus For All » When Inequality Matters

Justus For All » When Inequality Matters — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:48:29 +0000

[...] David Schmidtz has written a great essay on when equality matters and when it doesn’t, or more to the point, when we should attempt to redress inequality and when we shouldn’t. Here is a taste: Here is a truism about the wealth of nations: Zero-sum games do not increase it. Historically, the welfare of the poor always—always—depends on putting people in a position where their best shot at prosperity is to find a way of making other people better off. The key to long-run welfare never has been and never will be a matter of making sure the game’s best players lose. When we insist on creating enough power to beat the best players in zero-sum games, it is just a matter of time before the best players capture the very power we created in the hope of using it against them. We are never so unequal, or so oppressed, as when we give a dictator the power to equalize us. By contrast, the kinds of equality we have reason to care about will be kinds that in some way facilitate society as a positive sum game. [...]

By: Never Yet Melted » Contemplating Inequality

Never Yet Melted » Contemplating Inequality — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:10:17 +0000

[...] David Schmidtz at Cato discusses which forms of inequality matter, i.e., which deserve intervention and redress. Replies from Peter Singer, Tom G. Palmer, and Jacob Hacker will be forthcoming. The essay is excerpted from his new book, The Elements of Justice. [...]

By: Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » David Schmidtz on Inequality at Cato Unbound

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:24:58 +0000

[...] This month’s Cato Unbound ought to be catnip for Fly Bottle readers. Dave Schmidtz kicks off this month’s issue with a great little essay about “When Inequality Matters.” It draws from his new book, Elements of Justice, which is, to my mind, the best book in libertarian political thought since Nozick, and truly deserves wide attention. [...]