Why We All Do Care About Inequality (But are Loath to Admit it)

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Milanovic, Branko
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Soziale Ungleichheit \| Social inequality \| Armut \| Poverty \| Soziale Wohlfahrtsfunktion \| Social welfare function \| Kritik \| Criticism

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (10 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.530363 [DOI]
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D64 - Altruism ; D30 - Distribution. General
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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