Freedom, efficiency and equality

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Professor Wilkinson aims to defend equality against the objection that, due to its failure to provide incentives, it must conflict with either freedom or efficiency, or both. He explains the problem of incentives, the relationship between freedom, efficiency, and equality, and the difficulties of describing an ideal egalitarian economy, before concluding with his own radical solution, a scheme of social duty in a market system. Professor Wilkinson aims to defend equality against the objection …

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Full title :Freedom, efficiency and equality

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Professor Wilkinson aims to defend equality against the objection that, due to its failure to provide incentives, it must conflict with either freedom or efficiency, or both. He explains the problem of incentives, the relationship between freedom, efficiency, and equality, and the difficulties of describing an ideal egalitarian economy, before concluding with his own radical solution, a scheme of social duty in a market system.

Professor Wilkinson aims to defend equality against the objection that, due to its failure to provide incentives, it must conflict with either freedom or efficiency, or both. He concludes with his own radical solution, a scheme of social duty in a market system.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Macmillan Distribution Ltd (UK), Macmillan Press Ltd
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000

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Description:199 s

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0312230478, 9780312230470, 0333736028, 9780333736029
oclc:ocn460389883
Dewey Decimal:330.1

Freedom and occupational choice; the value of free occupational choice; efficiency; equality; the trilemma; incentives and economic calculation; egalitarianism, taxation and the trilemma; more on egalitarian taxation and the trilemma; social duty and efficiency; social duty, equality and freedom; in defence of social duty.