In difesa dell'uguaglianza distributiva

In defence of equality
Taking as starting point Krugman’s thesis on the weakening of egalitarian social norms as a cause of today’s growing income inequality, the article aims at pinpointing the force of the egalitarian argument, even assuming a liberal perspective sensitive to freedom, responsibility and incentive-compatibility. To this purpose, it reviews the three main families of theories developed from such a perspective, namely, equality of resources (in the rawlsian as well as in the left-libertarian and dworkinian versions), luck egalitarianism and equality of capabilities.