Lecture: Economic Inequalities: From Political Philosophy to Mathematical Modelling

We would like to invite you to Robin Maialeh´s lecture, which will take place at Academic Conference centre on February 2 from 5:30 p.m. 

Economic inequalities are not a failure of the market system but its immanent product. The lecture develops a critical-theoretical analysis of the market as an institutional arrangement that is structurally disposed to generate inequality through competition over scarce resources, the imperative of self-preservation, and the hegemony of instrumental rationality.

The distributive effects of the market are therefore not merely objects of normative critique. At a higher level of abstraction, they can also be formally reconstructed. The market mechanism is identified as a stochastic process with divergent allocative trajectories, even among homogeneous agents. This analytical perspective helps to explain why inequality does not arise accidentally but follows systematically from the internal logic of market organisation.

The final part of the lecture focuses on how such economic inequalities are perceived within society and opens the question of their legitimacy in contemporary normative and political contexts.