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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Autor Principal: Le Grand, Julian
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY, USA : HarperCollins Academic, ©1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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