Research project ‘An intellectual History of Global Inequality, 1960-2015’
What is the relationship between geographical anchoring (place), and how people have thought about international and global economic inequality? An Intellectual History of Global Inequality, 1960-2015 is a qualitative, humanistic research project that applies a transnational perspective on the intellectual history of inequality. We will investigate four countries (Argentina, Ghana, India, USA), four clusters of public intellectuals (such as economists, sociologists, philosophers, politicians and historians), combined with field studies. How has international economic inequality been conceptualized? What were the dominant past expectations for the future of international inequality? To which extent was economic inequality thought to be legitimate, just, useful?