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This article integrates empirical and normative discussions about why global economic inequalities matter in critically examining an approach known as derivative global egalitarianism (DGE). DGE is a burgeoning perspective that opposes excessive global economic inequality not based on the intrinsic value of equality but inequality's negative repercussions on other values. The article aims to advance the research agenda by identifying and critically evaluating four primary varieties of DGE arguments from related but distinct literatures, which span a number of disciplines, including economics, international relations, and political philosophy. Overall, DGE offers a number of persuasive arguments as to why current levels of global inequality are of concern, but aspects of DGE beg further philosophical and empirical examination. By situating DGE within the wider theoretical and empirical contexts, this article provides resources for its critical assessment and theoretical development.

One of humanity's most pressing problems is the inequality between people from 'developed' and 'developing' countries, which counteracts joint efforts to combat other large scale problems. Little is known about the psychological antecedents that affect the perception of and behavioral responses to global inequality. Based on, and extending, Duckitt's dual-process model, the current research examines psychological antecedents that may explain how people in an industrialized Western country respond to global inequality. In two studies (N1 = 116, N2 = 117), we analyzed the relationship between the Big Five and justice constructs, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), and behavioral intentions to reduce global inequality. Two-group path analysis revealed support for the dual-process model in that RWA and SDO were important predictors of behavioral intentions and partially acted as mediators between personality and such intentions. Moreover, justice sensitivity explained variance beyond the 'classic' DPM variables. In Study 2, we additionally assessed individuals' global social identification and perceived injustice of global inequality that explained additional variance. Extending previous work on the dual-process model, these findings demonstrate that individual and group-based processes predict people's responses to global inequality and uncover potentials to promote behavior in the interest of global justice. Adapted from the source document.

Chapter 1 Histories of Global Inequality: Introduction, Christian Olaf Christiansen & Steven L. B. Jensen -- Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought -- Chapter 2 Historicizing Piketty: The Fall and Rise of Inequality Economics, Eli Cook -- Chapter 3 The Demise of the Radical Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought, Michael J. Thompson -- Chapter 4 Products before People - How Inequality was Sidelined by Gross National Product, Philipp Lepenies -- Chapter 5 Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue, Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Inequality, Discrimination and Human Rights -- Chapter 6 Inequality and Post-war International Organisation: Discrimination, the World Social Situation and the United Nations, 1948-1957, Steven L. B. Jensen -- Chapter 7: "A pragmatic compromise between the ideal and the realistic": Debates over human rights, global distributive justice and minimum core obligations in the 1980s, Julia Dehm -- Chapter 8 Inequality in Global Disability Policies since the 1970s, Paul van Trigt -- Chapter 9 Protection and Abuse: The Conundrum of Global Gender Inequality, Sally L. Kitch -- Inequality in an Age of Global Capitalism -- Chapter 10 Brewing Inequalities: Kenya's Smallholder Tea Farmers and the Developmentalist State in the Late-Colonial and Early-Independence Era, Muey Saeteurn -- Chapter 11 Challenging Global Inequality in Streets and Supermarkets: Fair trade Activism since the 1960s, Peter van Dam -- Chapter 12 Partnerships Against Global Poverty: When 'Inclusive Capitalism' Entered the United Nations, Christian Olaf Christiansen -- Chapter 13 Third World Inc.: Notes from the Frontiers of Global Capital, Ravinder Kaur --

One of humanity's most pressing problems is the inequality between people from "developed" and "developing" countries, which counteracts joint efforts to combat other large scale problems. Little is known about the psychological antecedents that affect the perception of and behavioral responses to global inequality. Based on, and extending, Duckitt's dual‐process model, the current research examines psychological antecedents that may explain how people in an industrialized Western country respond to global inequality. In two studies (N1 = 116, N2 = 117), we analyzed the relationship between the Big Five and justice constructs, right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), and behavioral intentions to reduce global inequality. Two‐group path analysis revealed support for the dual‐process model in that RWA and SDO were important predictors of behavioral intentions and partially acted as mediators between personality and such intentions. Moreover, justice sensitivity explained variance beyond the "classic" DPM variables. In Study 2, we additionally assessed individuals' global social identification and perceived injustice of global inequality that explained additional variance. Extending previous work on the dual‐process model, these findings demonstrate that individual and group‐based processes predict people's responses to global inequality and uncover potentials to promote behavior in the interest of global justice.