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  1. Cf. "Income Inequality in the United States, 1913–1998" Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1–39; Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data, Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131(2): 519–578.

  2. See Jonathan Wolf, ‘Scanlon on Material and Social Inequality’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, (2013), 10:4, pp. 406–425 for a discussion of the relational dimension of Scanlon’s views on equality.

  3. Ansolabehere S, Snyder JM, “Why is there so little Money in US Politics?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2003.

  4. David Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard Lopoo, and Susan Mayer, "The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults," using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Chul-In Lee and Gary Solon, "Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility," Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, using data from the PSID; Scott Winship, "The Dream Abides: Economic Mobility in America from the Golden Age to the Great Recession," Policy Brief, Brookings Institution, 2013, using National Longitudinal Surveys data.

  5. RH Tawney, Equality, George Allen and Unwin, 1958.

  6. See Elizabeth Anderson, “What is the Point of Equality,” Ethics 109, no 2 (1999) and Jonathan Wolff, “Fairness, Respect and the Egalitarian Ethos”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, (1998) 27: 97–122 for some examples of egalitarian trade offs.

  7. Martin Ravallion, “Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay,” Journal of Economic Literature 56 (2): 620–642.

  8. Cf. Alexis Madrigal, “Kim Kardashian’s Private Firefighters Expose America’s Fault Lines,” The Atlantic, Nov 14, 2018.

  9. Debra Satz, “Some (Largely) Ignored Problems with Privatization,” NOMOS, Volume LX, Privatization, ed. Jack Knight and Melissa Schwartzberg, 2017.

  10. See Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, “Is Equality Passe?” Boston Review, December 1, 1998.

  11. See Tawney, op. cit.

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Satz, D. Scanlon on the diversity of objections to inequality. Philos Stud 176, 3367–3374 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01347-4

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