Equality and efficiency : the big tradeoff / Arthur M. Okun ; foreword by Lawrence Summers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okun, Arthur M., author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Brookings Classic.

A Brookings Classic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative economics.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1975, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff is a very personal work from one of the most important macroeconomists of the last hundred years. And this new edition includes ""Further Thoughts on Equality and Efficiency,"" a paper published by the author two years later. In classrooms Arthur M. Okun may be best remembered for Okun's Law, but his lasting legacy is the respect and admiration he earned from economists, practitioners, and policymakers. Equality and Efficiency is the perfect embodiment of that legacy, valued both by professional economists and those reade

Contents:

Foreword / Lawrence Summers

Rights and dollars

The case for the market

Equality of income and opportunity

Increasing equality in an efficient economy

Further thoughts on equality and efficiency

Notes

Index.

Notes:

"This book is a revised and expanded version of material originally delivered in April 1974 as a Godkin Lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

0-8157-5076-5

OCLC:

907951361