Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality

This book presents a historical and comparative statistical assessment of egalitarianism, tracing its rise from the Renaissance and Reformation to the present day. Brown draws on a wide survey of actual distributions of income and wealth throughout historywhat is known of them in the past, what form they currently take, and the economic processes that generate themto analyze the authority of equality as a principle of social philosophy and the practicability of egalitarian policy.