Chapter 8. Inequality as Process

The chapter first shows that out inequality concept is inherently normative. The term is in fact used to mean “injustice.” The normative implications of three measurement problems affecting inequality are then discussed: linearity, additivity, and generality. More general measurement problems are the improbability of inequality and metrizability; it may be that justice is specifically conceptualized as unmeasurable. The chapter then analyzes the problems raised for concepts on inequality by the simple-minded social ontology of classical liberalism, and starts to sketch the issues involved in a more general processual account of injustice.

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