Egalitarianism And The Generation Of Inequality

Author : Henry Phelps Brown
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191521523
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality written by Henry Phelps Brown and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1988-11-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The belief that existing distributions of income and wealth are unjust has come to be widely held, and has prompted the inclusion of egalitarian measures in many political programmes. This work uses the methods of reasoned history and comparative statistics to arrive at an assessment of egalitarianism. After reviewing the outlooks of the ancient and medieval worlds, it traces the rise of egalitarianism from the Renaissance and Reformation onwards. A complementary approach is provided by a wide survey of actual distributions of income and wealth: what is known of them in the past, what form they take in contemporary societies, and the economic processes that generate them. These comprehensive studies lead to an inquiry into the authority of equality as a principle of social philosophy, and the practicability of egalitarian policy.

Author : Henry Phelps Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191596773
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality written by Henry Phelps Brown and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the methods of reasoned history and comparative statistics, this work arrives at an assessment of egalitarianism. It traces the rise of egalitarianism from the Renaissance and Reformation onwards. A complementary approach is provided by a wide survey of actual distributions of income and wealth.

Author : Henry Phelps Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198286481
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality written by Henry Phelps Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-11-03 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The belief that existing distributions of income and wealth are unjust has come to be widely held, and has prompted the inclusion of egalitarian measures in many political programmes. This work uses the methods of reasoned history and comparative statistics to arrive at an assessment of egalitarianism. After reviewing the outlooks of the ancient and medieval worlds, it traces the rise of egalitarianism from the Renaissance and Reformation onwards. A complementary approach is provided by a wide survey of actual distributions of income and wealth: what is known of them in the past, what form they take in contemporary societies, and the economic processes that generate them. These comprehensive studies lead to an inquiry into the authority of equality as a principle of social philosophy, and the practicability of egalitarian policy.

Author : Daniel Halliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803354
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inheritance of Wealth written by Daniel Halliday and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also drawing on the history of the egalitarian, utilitarian, and liberal traditions in political philosophy. He presents an egalitarian case for restricting inherited wealth, arguing that unrestricted inheritance is unjust to the extent that it enables and enhances the intergenerational replication of inequality. Here, inequality is understood in a group-based sense: the unjust effects of inheritance are principally in its tendency to concentrate certain opportunities into certain groups. This results in what Halliday describes as 'economic segregation'. He defends a specific proposal about how to tax inherited wealth: roughly, inheritance should be taxed more heavily when it comes from old money. He rebuts some sceptical arguments against inheritance taxes, and makes suggestions about how tax schemes should be designed.

Author : Dennis McKerlie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199769133
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice Between the Young and the Old written by Dennis McKerlie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis McKerlie's monograph examines justice between age-groups with the ultimate goal of a new theory of justice that effectively grapples with questions concerning justice between the young and old.

Author : Samuel Bowles
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859848630
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recasting Egalitarianism written by Samuel Bowles and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major work on economic and social policy, two prominent economists lead a debate to redistribute wealth. The book lays out the underlying logic of this proposal in detail, followed by responses by both critics and supporters.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Egalitarianism written by Anthony Giddens and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text tackles one of the most pressing issues currently facing centre-left governments - inequality. Bringing together original contributions from globally renowned thinkers, the text offers an account of the dynamic & multifaceted nature of contemporary inequality, & lays out how these inequalities can be countered.

Author : Carina Fourie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199331103
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Equality written by Carina Fourie and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is equality valuable? This question dominates many discussions of social justice, which tend to center on whether certain forms of distributive equality are valuable, such as the equal distribution of primary social goods. But these discussions often neglect what is known as social or relational equality. Social equality suggests that equality is foremost about relationships and interactions between people, rather than being primarily about distribution. A number of philosophers have written about the significance of social equality, and it has also played an important role in real-life egalitarian movements, such as feminism and civil rights movements. However, as it has been relatively neglected in comparison to the debates about distributive equality, it requires much more theoretical attention. This volume brings together a collection of ten original essays which present new analyses of social and relational equality in philosophy and political theory. The essays analyze the nature of social equality, as well as its relationship to justice and politics.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Author : Shlomi Segall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107129818
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Inequality Matters written by Shlomi Segall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and defends the view that inequality is intrinsically bad when and because it leads to arbitrary disadvantage.