I discuss the major reasons why economic inequality should be a source of concern and the forms of inequality that are principally implicated. I consider ten different arguments as to why inequality matters – two of them moral, two political, three economic, and three social. In each case I...

A reduction of impediments to international flows of goods, capital and professional labor is thought to raise the economic costs of programs by the nation state (and labor unions) to redistribute income to the poor and to provide economic security. But some of the more politically and...