Equity: In Theory and Practice

by H. Peyton Young

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691044643
• ISBN13: 9780691044644
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

The seldom followed path to wisdom

More technical than the Win-Win solution of Brams & Taylor, Equity offer a deeper and broader insight to the notion of equity. It covers the notion of equity with bounded claim and the solution brougth by diffrent culture, equity in taxing philosophy and devellops the problem of equity when there is more than 2 actors. In my opinion, it is certainly one of the best book if you want a broad coverage of the notion of equity. There is some math however, but you may skip most of it without loosing the point.