An Intellectual History of Global Inequality, c. 1940-Present

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, c. 1940-present is a qualitative, humanistic research project that applies a transnational perspective on the intellectual history of inequality. The project (running from 2019-2024) set out to 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? In this presentation, the PI will present some of the main findings and publications coming out of the project. read more here.

Speaker Bio

Christian O. Christiansen, Professor at the Dept. of History of Ideas, Aarhus University, is an expert in the intellectual history of global inequality. He has previously published the book Progressive Business: An Intellectual History of the Role of Business in American Society (Oxford University Press). Forthcoming books are: In Defence of Economic and Social Human Rights (Cambridge University Press), Designing Global Economic Equality (Oxford University Press), and Vi skyller global ulighed ned med champagne og østers (Aarhus Universitetsforlag).

Registration

The event is free and open to all interested. Please register through the link here.