How Rich Should the 1% Be? - Proportional Justice and Economic Inequality

How rich should the 1% be? And, most importantly, when does the distance in economic resources between the richest citizens and -us-, the average citizenry, become a concern for justice?

This volume explores how excessive economic inequality gives the best-off considerably more political influence than average citizens, thereby violating political equality. It argues that the gap between the best-off and the worst-off should not be reduced because it is good, but rather as an inescapable instrument to protect citizens from the risk of material domination. For this reason, it defends the -principle of proportionality-: economic inequality should not exceed a certain range or proportion to enable both the best-off and the worst-off to be co-authors of the legal, political, and socioeconomic rules that govern the -social- relations in which they are involved.

Further, the book discusses material domination and explains how money influences politics and what are the remedies