Egalitarianism and the generation of inequality /

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Author / Creator:Brown, Henry Phelps, 1906-1994
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
Description:x, 552 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/906296
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ISBN:0198286481 : $52.00 (U.S.)
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [528]-539.
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Table of Contents:
  • egalitarianism And The Generation of Inequality
  • Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. the Rise of Egalitarianism
  • 1. Early Principles of Equality and Inequality
  • 2. The Transition to Liberalism
  • 3. The Equality of Man in the Eighteenth Century
  • 4. Eighteenth-Century Developments Propitious to Egalitarianism
  • 5. Action Delayed
  • 6. The Movement into Redistribution
  • 7. The Formation of Modern Egalitarianism
  • 8. Issues and Influences Reviewed
  • Part II. Distributions of Income and Wealth in the Living Economy
  • 9. Distributions Displayed
  • Statistical Appendix
  • 10. The Form of Recent Distributions of Income
  • 11. The Historical Course of Change in the Distribution of Income
  • 12. The Redistribution of Income
  • 13. The Distribution of Wealth in Some Contemporary Economies
  • 14. The Historical Course of Change in the Distribution of Wealth
  • 15. The Formation of Distributions of Income and Wealth
  • 16. The Significance of the Statistical Record
  • Part III. Egalitarianism Analysed and Assessed
  • 17. The Basis of Egalitarianism
  • 18. An Assessment of Egalitarianism
  • References
  • Index