TY - BOOK ID - 110552013 TI - The pursuit of equality in the West PY - 2022 SN - 9780674975750 0674975758 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Equality - History KW - Equality before the law - History KW - Equality KW - Equality before the law KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Europe KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:110552013 AB - Do democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there also be economic and social equality? Aldo Schiavone traces these questions and their diverse answers from the ancient world to the present and urges a new course to rescue democracies now suffering from excesses of inequality. ER -