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UNINA9910821890203321 |
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Autore |
Bojer Hilde <1939-> |
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Titolo |
Distributional justice : theory and measurement / / Hilde Bojer |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-42829-4 |
1-134-42830-8 |
1-280-10760-X |
0-203-98788-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 47 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Distributive justice |
Welfare economics |
Utilitarianism |
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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; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 About distributional justice; 3 Deserts and the fruits of our labour; 4 Welfarism: utilitarianism and welfare economics; 5 John Rawls's theory of justice; 6 Equality of what? Resources and capabilities; 7 Libertarianism and Marxism; 8 Children and their mothers; 9 Income and wealth; 10 Household income; 11 What should we measure?; 12 Lorenz curves and inequality measures; 13 Social evaluation of inequality; 14 Some inequality measures; 15 Poverty; 16 Decomposition of inequality measures; Appendix A: uncertainty and expected utility |
Appendix B: sampling errorsNotes; Suggested further reading; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Introducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls's social contract and the Sen/Nussbaum capability approach with a refreshingly readable style. There is a chapter covering the position of mothers and children in theories of justice. The book then studies empirical methods used in analysing the distribution of economic goods, covering Lorenz curves and inequality measures. The concepts of income, wealth and economic goods are comprehensively discussed, |
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