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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.

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.

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.