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Equity

By H. Peyton Young

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0691043191, 9780691043197
LCC
HB72 .Y68 1994
Open Library ID
OL1394982M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11854275 bytes)
Pages
127\127
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

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 centers on the question of whether the solution is ''fair.'' In this book, 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.

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