Chapter 5 Equal-equivalents for Inequality, Welfare, and Liberty: Concepts and Policy
Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber
ISBN: 978-1-78190-170-0, eISBN: 978-1-78190-171-7
Publication date: 23 August 2012
Abstract
The concepts of the “equal-equivalents” permit the definition of one-dimensional and multidimensional inequalities, of individual “welfare” (the same function for all individuals) and, as a result, of classical inequality properties and of the optimal allocation in “macrojustice” (optimum income taxation and transfers, amounting in particular to equal liberty of choice in different domains).
Citation
Kolm, S. (2012), "Chapter 5 Equal-equivalents for Inequality, Welfare, and Liberty: Concepts and Policy", Bishop, J.A. and Salas, R. (Ed.) Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 117-134. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-2585(2012)0000020008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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