David Williams: The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx

From Princeton University Website:
“Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it. But why, exactly, should inequality worry us? The Greatest of All Plagues demonstrates that this underlying question has been a central preoccupation of some of the most eminent political thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition.”

David Lay Williams is professor of political science at DePaul University. He is the author of Rousseau’s Platonic Enlightenment and Rousseau’s “Social Contract”: An Introduction.