European societies have been experiencing growing income and wealth inequalities over the past few decades, and, accordingly, they are a topic of intense discussion. Although the population’s evaluation of inequalities as just or unjust is important for designing social policies, there has...

Mit seinen voluminösen Bestsellern "Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert" und "Kapital und Ideologie" hat Thomas Piketty eine internationale Debatte über die Ursachen sozialer Ungleichheit in Gang gebracht. Sein neues Buch ist eine bewusst komprimierte Weltgeschichte der sozialen Konflikte und...

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political...