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Distributional Justice : Theory and Measurement.
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. It is an important read for economists and other social scientists.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Colección: | Routledge frontiers of political economy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.