1st Edition
Equity and Choice An Essay in Economics and Applied Philosophy
By Julian Le Grand
Copyright 1991
208 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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Offering 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. He argues that none captures the essence of the term as well as an alternative conception relating equity to the existence or otherwise of individual choice.
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Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Some preliminaries, 3. Equity versus efficiency: the elusive trade-off, 4. Methods of approach, 5. Economic conceptions of equity, 6. Equity and choice, 7. Equity, health and health care, 8. Equity and grants to local governments, 9. Equity, the measurement of choice sets and income taxation, 10. Afterword, References
Biography
Julian Le Grand
