Comitato di presidenza dell’Osservatorio ..................................................................................... IX Occasione e finalita` ........................................................................................................................... XI Indirizzi di saluto LIVIA POMODORO .................................................................................................................................. 3 PIERFRANCESCO MAJORINO .................................................................................................................... 3 Opening Lecture The problem of inequality today. A quasi-American strategy for European egalitarians?, PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS ............................................................................................................................. 11 CAUSE E RAGIONI DELLA DISUGUAGLIANZA Introduce e modera LUIGI CAMPIGLIO ................................................................................................................................... 21 ENRICO GIOVANNINI 25, JACOB HACKER 31, ANDREA BRANDOLINI 39, DANIEL WALDENSTRO¨ M 59 CONSEGUENZE DELLA DISUGUAGLIANZA Modera CONCHITA D’AMBROSIO ........................................................................................................................ 69 Global inequality, BRANKO MILANOVIC ............................................................................................ 71 Instability implications of increasing inequality. What can be learned from North America?, LARS OSBERG ............................................................................................................................. 85 Wealth inequality and accumulation, JOHN HILLS ......................................................................... 115 Unequal neighbourhoods in European cities: are there solutions or only problems?, ANNE POWER .................................................................................................................................................... 127 Vedere la poverta` in Italia, MATILDE CALLARI GALLI .................................................................. 147 Domande e risposte BERNARDO BORTOLOTTI 161, FRANCESCO FERRANTE 161, LARS OSBERG 162 POSSIBILI CURE Modera VINCENZO FERRARI ................................................................................................................................ 165 GUIDO CALABRESI 165, JULIAN LE GRAND 165, BRUCE ACKERMAN 173, LANE KENWORTHY 179, MAURIZIO FERRERA 183 Conclusioni GUIDO ROSSI ......................................................................................................................................... 195 GUIDO CALABRESI ................................................................................................................................. 201