Equity and Choice: An Essay in Economics and Applied Philosophy

by Julian Le Grand

Overview

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 other

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134998791
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/1991
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	450 KB

About the Author

Julian Le Grand

Table of Contents

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