Taking ‘inequality’ back to basics
Thinking about inequality in abstract terms can obscure the real problems
Nov 4 · 8 min read
Professor John Veit-Wilson
If you want to talk about inequality in the context of social cohesion, then you have to be clear what you mean. ‘Inequality’ is merely an abstraction — which form is your focus and why is that one a problem? Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby must be well aware of the philosophical literature on the topic (Bucelli 2017) and touches on the damage which the larger structural inequalities cause to…


