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3 Fair shares

Abstract

This chapter looks more systematically at debates about the distribution of income and wealth. It is divided into three sections, each addressing a concept that was fundamental to progressive thinking about this issue: equality, need, and incentive. It shows that the majority of progressives favoured the principles of need and, reluctantly, incentive, leading them to endorse a distributive pattern that was loosely, although not precisely, egalitarian. The final section of the chapter outlines the policies that followed from these theoretical commitments.

Abstract

This chapter looks more systematically at debates about the distribution of income and wealth. It is divided into three sections, each addressing a concept that was fundamental to progressive thinking about this issue: equality, need, and incentive. It shows that the majority of progressives favoured the principles of need and, reluctantly, incentive, leading them to endorse a distributive pattern that was loosely, although not precisely, egalitarian. The final section of the chapter outlines the policies that followed from these theoretical commitments.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Epigraph v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Series editors’ foreword viii
  5. Acknowledgements ix
  6. List of abbreviations xi
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I 1900–31: Foundations
  9. 1 Riches and poverty 17
  10. 2 From each according to their ability 38
  11. 3 Fair shares 59
  12. Part II 1931–45: Economics
  13. 4 Marxists and social democrats 93
  14. 5 Social justice and economic efficiency 117
  15. Part III 1945–64: Revisions
  16. 6 Means and ends 151
  17. 7 Let us face the future 183
  18. Conclusion 219
  19. Select bibliography 228
  20. Index 251
Equality and the British Left
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Equality and the British Left
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781847792198.00011

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front matter i
  2. Epigraph v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Series editors’ foreword viii
  5. Acknowledgements ix
  6. List of abbreviations xi
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I 1900–31: Foundations
  9. 1 Riches and poverty 17
  10. 2 From each according to their ability 38
  11. 3 Fair shares 59
  12. Part II 1931–45: Economics
  13. 4 Marxists and social democrats 93
  14. 5 Social justice and economic efficiency 117
  15. Part III 1945–64: Revisions
  16. 6 Means and ends 151
  17. 7 Let us face the future 183
  18. Conclusion 219
  19. Select bibliography 228
  20. Index 251
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