Equity and choice : an essay in economics and applied philosophy /

Equity and Choice offers a new answer to an age-old problem: the meaning of a just or equitable distribution of resources. Julian Le Grand examines the principal interpretations of equity used by economists and political philosophers, and argues that none captures the essence of the term as well as...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Le Grand, Julian
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York, NY, USA : HarperCollins Academic, ©1991.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Some preliminaries; Equity versus efficiency: the elusive trade-off; Methods of approach; Economic conceptions of equity; Equity and choice; Equity, health and health care; Equity and grants to local governments; Equity, the measurement of choice sets and income taxation; Afterword; References