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As Alexis de Tocqueville long ago observed, an important clue to the comprehension of American society is the natives’ ambiguous but powerful passion for equality. “The more I advanced in the study of American society,” noted this aristocratic Frenchman,
the more I observed that... equality of condition is the fundamental fact from which all others seemed to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations terminated.
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Lekachman, R. (1981). Economic Justice in Hard Times. In: Caplan, A.L., Callahan, D. (eds) Ethics in Hard Times. The Hastings Center Series in Ethics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4022-5_4
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