Living as Equals - Hardcover

Barker, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0198292058 ISBN 13: 9780198292050

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1996

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This is a collection of essays by six prominent social scientists on the ideal of economic and social equality and the ways, if any, in which public action can help to achieve it. * Amartya Sen offers an overview of how equality can be furthered by public action. * A. B. Atkinson proposes an official poverty line in Britain as a way to focus public debate and political action. * E. J. Hobsbawm explores the tensions within the rival demands of language, nation, and culture. * Dorothy Wedderburn argues the case for the superiority of public action in relation to the National Health Service. * Albert O. Hirschman scrutinizes the rhetorical devices used to counter proposals for reform. * Ronald Dworkin demonstrates that liberty and equality are not, as some argue, in conflict.

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Paul Barker is the former editor of New Society, and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Community Studies, London.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0198292058
• ISBN 13: 9780198292050
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172