The Distribution and Redistribution of Income - Hardcover

Lambert, Peter

9780719057311: The Distribution and Redistribution of Income

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719057310 ISBN 13: 9780719057311

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2002

How may we compare income distributions? What is poverty and how much of it is there? What are the characteristics of a "good" income tax and what constitutes an "improvement" in an income tax? Broadly speaking, who gets what, and more importantly who should get what? This book provides a synthesis of the many strands of distributional analysis used in the fields of social policy, welfare theory and public finance. Using only basic constructions from calculus, probability and the economics of consumer behaviour, it develops a consistent mathematical approach into a self-contained and unified treatment of the distribution and redistribution of income.

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About the Author:

Peter Lambert is Professor of Economics at the University of York

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