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Inequality : what can be done? / Anthony B. Atkinson.
Lippincott Library HC79.I5 A822 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atkinson, A. B. (Anthony Barnes), 1944-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution.
- Poverty.
- Equality.
- Welfare economics.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 384 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Diagnosis 7
- 1 Setting the Scene 9
- 2 Learning from History 45
- 3 The Economics of Inequality 82
- A Summing-Up So Far 110
- Part 2 Proposals for Action 113
- 4 Technological Change and Countervailing Power 115
- 5 Employment and Pay in the Future 133
- 6 Capital Shared 155
- 7 Progressive Taxation 179
- 8 Social Security for All 205
- Proposals to Reduce the Extent of Inequality 237
- Part 3 Can It Be Done? 241
- 9 Shrinking the Cake? 243
- 10 Globalisation Prevents Action? 263
- 11 Can We Afford It? 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674504769
- 0674504763
- OCLC:
- 893709398
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