Inequality : what can be done? /

Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them agai...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Income distribution.
Poverty.
Equality.
Welfare economics.
Revenu > Répartition.
Pauvreté.
Économie du bien-être.
poverty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Equality
Income distribution
Poverty
Welfare economics
Wohlstand
Wohlfahrt
Ungleichheit
Gleichheit
Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • Learning from history
  • The economics of inequality
  • A summing-up so far
  • Technological change and countervailing power
  • Employment and pay in the future
  • Capital shared
  • Progressive taxation
  • Social security for all
  • Proposals to reduce the extent of inequality
  • Shrinking the cake?
  • Globalisation prevents action?
  • Can we afford it?

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