ABSTRACT

Offering a new answer to an age-old problem: the meaning of a just or equitable distribution of resources, Julian Le Grand examines the principal interpretations of equity used by economists and political philosophers. He argues that none captures the essence of the term as well as an alternative conception relating equity to the existence or other

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|13 pages

Some preliminaries

chapter 4|22 pages

Methods of approach

chapter 5|24 pages

Economic conceptions of equity

chapter 6|17 pages

Equity and choice

chapter 7|24 pages

Equity, health and health care

chapter 8|25 pages

Equity and grants to local governments

chapter 10|2 pages

Afterword