Books by Harry G. Frankfurt
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Mentions on MR
On inequality
What I’ve been reading
(2015-10-05)
4. Harry G. Frankfurt, On Inequality . A very short book, but longer than the blurb I wrote for it: “Economic equality is one of today’s most overrated ideas, and Harry G. Frankfurt’s highly compelling book explains exactly why.”
It’s not the inequality, it’s the mobility
(2015-04-05)
Read Sher, Harry Frankfurt’s excellent forthcoming book On Inequality , Derek Parfit on equality and priority (pdf) and Huemer on Parfit (pdf). Read about prioritarianism more generally . I come away from these writings with the view that the current moral focus on inequality is a flat-out mistake in moral philosophy, analogous to how the philosophers sometimes make mistakes in economics. That’s right, not a difference in values but a mistake . (The difference in values, to the extent there ...