Multidimensional Horizontal and Global Inequality

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Notes

1. I am grateful to David Clark and Shailaja Fennell for very helpful comments on this article.

2. This theme is nicely developed, especially with reference to gender inequality, in the contribution from Stephanie Seguino in this symposium.

3. For a review of these debates with new critical contributions, see Brighouse and Robeyns (2009).

4. This position revives the old idea of complex equality as defended by Michael Walzer (1983), without the attendant communitarian commitments. It perhaps also shares some affiliation with the ‘specific egalitarianism’ of James Tobin discussed by Atkinson on pages 39–40.

5. Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti, also in this symposium, similarly notes the narrow focus on income-based inequality to the exclusion of non-monetary services and public goods.

6. Horizontal or group-based inequality is also prevalent, and arguably more pernicious, in developing countries. See Stewart (2008) for the impact of horizontal inequality on conflict.