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UNINA9910783655803321 |
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Autore |
Le Grand Julian |
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Titolo |
Equity and choice : an essay in economics and applied philosophy / / Julian Le Grand |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, NY, USA : , : HarperCollins Academic, , 1991 |
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1-134-99879-1 |
0-429-23086-9 |
0-203-33370-5 |
1-134-99880-5 |
0-203-40009-7 |
1-280-32348-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic policy |
Distributive justice |
Social choice |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 an alternative conception relating equity to the existence or otherwise of individual choice. He shows that this conception is not only philosophically well-grounded but is also directly relevant to key areas of distributional policy. The theoretical argument is complemented by detailed discussion o |
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