Zur neoliberalen Politik gehört eine Umdeutung von Begriffen ("Erfolg" statt "Gier", "Ungleichheit" statt "Armut"), die zur Entpolitisierung führen. Ungerechtigkeit wird hingenommen, Alternativen werden nicht mehr erwogen, weil sie in der allgegenwärtigen ökonomischen Logik keinen Platz mehr...

Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a strong and clear link between inequality and justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert...

Distributive value judgments based on the 'origins' of economic inequalities (e.g. circumstances and responsible choices) are increasingly evoked to argue that 'the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal'. However, one may reasonably agree that distributive value...

The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European respondents consider very low gross earned incomes to be unjustly...