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Item Details
| Title:
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EQUITY
IN THEORY AND PRACTICE |
| By: |
H. Peyton Young |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£59.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691043191 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691043197 |
| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 January, 1994 |
| Pages: |
253 |
| Description: |
Governments and institutions make crucial choices about public services, taxation, public health and other issues. This review of social justice offers a theoretical approach to the fair distribution of public resources, and applies this theory to actual cases. |
| Synopsis: |
Governments and institutions, perhaps even more than markets, determine who gets what in our society. They make the crucial choices about who pays the taxes, who gets into college, who gets medical care, who gets drafted, where the hazardous waste dump is sited, and how much we pay for public services. Debate about these issues inevitably centres on the question of whether the solution is "fair". In "Equity: In Theory and Practice", H. Peyton Young offers a systematic explanation of what we mean by fairness in distributing public resources and burdens, and applies the theory to actual cases. Young begins by reviewing some of the major theories of social justice, showing that none of them explains how societies resolve distributive problems in practice. He then suggests an alternative approach to analyzing fairness in concrete situations: equity, he argues, does not boil down to a single formula, but represents a balance between competing principles of need, desert, and social utility.The studies Young uses to illustrate his approach include the design of income tax schedules, priority schemes for allocating scarce medical resources, formulas for distributing political representation, and criteria for setting fees for public services. Each represents a unique blend of historical perspective, rigorous analysis, and an emphasis on practical solutions. |
| Illustrations: |
21 line illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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