● The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx
David Lay Williams
Summary via publisher (Princeton U. Press)
Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it. But why, exactly, should inequality worry us? The Greatest of All Plagues demonstrates that this underlying question has been a central preoccupation of some of the most eminent political thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition.