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PPE Undergraduate Weekend Seminar
February 27, 2016 @ 8:30 am - 9:00 pm
This is an intensive one day seminar on “Equality: Whether and Why It Matters” for undergraduates. Professor Barry Maguire will be leading the discussion.
1% of US citizens have 40% of the nation’s wealth. The bottom 80% only have 7% of the nation’s wealth. One American family is as wealthy as the bottom 40% of Americans put together. Should we be concerned about this? If so, why? In this one day seminar we will ask the following more specific questions about equality. What inequalities should we care about? Should we equalise wealth, or resources, or opportunities for welfare, or something else? Does equality matter for its own sake, or only instrumentally? What policy proposals might help to ameliorate inequalities?
There will be four sessions:
Liberty and Equality
What is Equality of Status?
Equality, Priority, Sufficiency
Some Radical Proposals
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, will be provided.
Registration in advance required. Space is limited. If interested, please contact Professor Maguire.