03424oam 2200745I 450 991045032340332120200520144314.01-134-42830-81-280-10760-X0-203-98788-810.4324/9780203987889 (CKB)1000000000249283(EBL)241831(OCoLC)475958803(SSID)ssj0001144128(PQKBManifestationID)12482470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001144128(PQKBWorkID)11113584(PQKB)10050732(SSID)ssj0000140176(PQKBManifestationID)11148334(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140176(PQKBWorkID)10028697(PQKB)11029038(MiAaPQ)EBC241831(Au-PeEL)EBL241831(CaPaEBR)ebr10097380(CaONFJC)MIL10760(OCoLC)935227612(OCoLC)252953224(EXLCZ)99100000000024928320180331d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDistributional justice theory and measurement /Hilde BojerLondon ;New York :Routledge,2003.1 online resource (168 p.)Routledge frontiers of political economy ;47Description based upon print version of record.0-415-40639-0 0-415-29824-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 utilityAppendix B: sampling errorsNotes; Suggested further reading; References; IndexIntroducing 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, with a particular view to their role in theories of justice. ThiRoutledge frontiers of political economy ;47.Distributive justiceWelfare economicsUtilitarianismElectronic books.Distributive justice.Welfare economics.Utilitarianism.330Bojer Hilde1939,956368MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450323403321Distributional justice2165372UNINA