Comments on: Down to Earth: Reply to Schmidtz http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/03/13/jacob-hacker/down-to-earth/ Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Comment is free http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/03/13/jacob-hacker/down-to-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Comment is free Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:24:54 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=132#comment-254 <strong>Does inequality matter?</strong> And should government do something about it? Does inequality matter?

And should government do something about it?

]]> By: Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Putting More on the Table Brings People With More to the Table http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/03/13/jacob-hacker/down-to-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Putting More on the Table Brings People With More to the Table Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:34:41 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=132#comment-239 [...] Jacob Hacker’s essay is very good, I thought. But it sharpened my longstanding bafflement about what exactly it is that (non-libertarian) egalitarians think they are up to. Hacker argues that one of the most troubling things about economic inequality is its effect on the political process. The democratic ideal is equality of voice–equal say in the political process that determines our common terms of association. But the wealthy have the means to buy a louder voice and a disproportionate say in process. [...] [...] Jacob Hacker’s essay is very good, I thought. But it sharpened my longstanding bafflement about what exactly it is that (non-libertarian) egalitarians think they are up to. Hacker argues that one of the most troubling things about economic inequality is its effect on the political process. The democratic ideal is equality of voice–equal say in the political process that determines our common terms of association. But the wealthy have the means to buy a louder voice and a disproportionate say in process. [...]

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