Distributive justice and inequality : a selection of papers given at a conference, Berlin, May 1986 /

This book contains a selection of papers which were presented at a conference on "Distributive Justice and Inequality" at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. Topics covered range from concepts of equity, optimal population policies and axiomatic characterizations of inequality measure...

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Other Authors: Gaertner, Wulf, Pattanaik, Prasanta K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1988]
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Lorenz Curves for Various Processes: A Pluralistic Approach to Equity
  • Lives and Well-Being
  • Consequentialist Demographic Norms and Parenting Rights
  • Measurement of Inequality: An Attempt at Unification and Generalization
  • On a Class of Inequality Measures
  • Poverty Orderings and Welfare Dominance
  • Income Inequality, Welfare and Poverty in a Developing Economy with Applications to Sri Lanka
  • Distributional Implications of Equal Sacrifice Rules
  • A Note on Minimally Progressive Taxation and Absolute Income Inequality
  • Progressive Taxation and Redistributive Taxation: Different Labels for the Same Product?- Characterizing the Nash Bargaining Solution without Pareto-Optimality.