Ithaca College

 Naeem Inayatullah (with co-author, David Blaney) published, "Global Capitalism, Inequality and Poverty” (in Toni Erskine and Ken Booth, International Relations Theory Today (Polity, 2016).  https://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745671208

The chapter asks why poverty exists in the face of astonishing wealth.  It moves through arguments, both modern and pre-modern, that justify poverty’s persistence. 

 It stages a debate between egalitarians and liberals/libertarians and shows that the two parties systematically avoid each other’s best arguments. This avoidance allows contemporary social theory to preserve the largely mythical relationship between work and reward.  The result is a commitment to hierarchy that rationalizes poverty rather than challenging it. 

A pre-publication draft of the essay can be read here: https://www.academia.edu/4348024/Justice_in_Market_Society_Capitalism_In_Equality_and_Poverty