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This volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights from the Middle Ages to the present day. It situates this history within perennial struggles over obligation, while probing the relationship of social rights to questions of religion, race, gender, class, empire and globalisation.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Histories of Global Inequality: Introduction -- Scraping By -- Why This Book? -- The Sudden Emergence of a New Concept? -- The Deeper History of Global Inequality -- Inequality Within and Beyond the Nation State -- Inequality Research Today -- New Approaches to Global Inequality Research -- Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought -- Historicizing Piketty: The Fall and Rise of Inequality Economics -- The Centrality of Distribution in Classical Economics -- Pillar I: The Theory of Marginal Productivity -- Pillar II: The Consumerist Turn of Utility Theory -- Pillar III: Pareto Optimality -- Conclusions -- The Demise of the Radical Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought -- Introduction -- The Radical Republican Critique of Economic Inequality -- The Ascendance of the Liberal Paradigm -- Radical Republicanism and the Concept of Inequality -- Products Before People: How Inequality Was Sidelined by Gross National Product -- Introduction -- Numbers in Politics -- Kuznets's Approach to National Income -- Keynes and the War -- A Permanent Fix? -- Post-War Challenges and the End of Inequality -- Conclusion -- Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue? -- Inequality Knowledge -- Global Insecurities: The Western Middle Class and Global Inequality -- From the Global Justice Movement to Occupy Wall Street -- Problematising the 99% Vision of Inequality -- Inequality, Discrimination and Human Rights -- Inequality and Post-War International Organization: Discrimination, the World Social Situation and the United Nations, 1948-1957 -- Discrimination as a United Nations Policy Mandate, 1948-1957 -- Inequality and the United Nations World Social Situation Reports, 1948-1957 -- Conclusion.