Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality

By Brown Phelps and Henry Phelps Brown

Book Overview

This book presents a historical and comparative statistical assessment of egalitarianism, tracing its rise from the Renaissance and Reformation to the present day. Brown draws on a wide survey of actual distributions of income and wealth throughout history--what is known of them in the past, what form they currently take, and the economic processes that generate them--to analyze the authority of equality as a principle of social philosophy and the practicability of egalitarian policy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198283903
• ISBN13: 9780198283904
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"