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Full Idea
Complex equality tries to keep advantages in one area (such as money) from translating into advantages in politics or before the law.
Gist of Idea
Complex equality restricts equalities from spilling over, like money influencing politics and law
Source
report of Michael Walzer (Spheres of Justice [1983]) by Tuckness,A/Wolf,C - This is Political Philosophy 3 'Complex'
Book Ref
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.74
A Reaction
Put like that, Walzer's complex equality becomes very interesting, and pinpoints a major problem of our age, where discrepancies of wealth have become staggeringly large at the top end.