Ellen Frankel Paul / D. Miller / Jeffrey Paul (eds.)

Should Differences in Income and Wealth Matter?

Volume 19, Part 1
Herausgeber: Miller, Fred D. Jr.; Paul, Jeffrey; Paul, Ellen Frankel

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Produktbeschreibung

These essays assess the empirical and theoretical questions raised by inequalities of income and wealth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521005357
• ISBN-10: 0521005353
• Artikelnr.: 21728141

Inhaltsangabe

1. Egalitarianism and welfare state redistribution Daniel Shapiro
2. Does the welfare state help the poor? Tyler Cowen
3. The stagnating fortunes of the middle class Edward N. Wolff
4. Inequality, incentives, and opportunity Donald R. Deere and Finis Welch
5. Misunderstanding distribution Young Back Choi
6. Can anyone beat the flat tax? Richard A. Epstein
7. Why justice requires transfers to offset income and wealth inequalities Richard J. Arneson
8. The importance of being sufficiently equal James K. Galbraith
9. Does inequality matter - for its own sake? Alan Ryan
10. Equal respect and equal shares David Schmidtz
11. Too much inequality Richard W. Miller
12. Equality, benevolence, and responsiveness to agent-relative value Eric Mack
13. How equality matters Hillel Steiner.