The Ethics of Redistribution

Baron de Jouvenel presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.

Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel (Author)

9780521125864, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 January 2010

104 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.6 cm, 0.12 kg

The Ethics of Redistribution was originally delivered as a Boutwood Lecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1949. The Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel was then an already internationally regarded philosopher whose learned style was a calculated blend of moral. historical and political considerations. In this essay, split between discussions of the socialist ideal and state expenditure, he presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.

Foreword by Sir Will Spens
Preface
Lecture I. The Socialist Ideal
Lecture II. State Expenditure: Appendix: the potentialities of pure redistribution.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]