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Chapter X
The Distribution of Income |
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A central element in the development of a collectivist sentiment in this century, at least in Western countries, has been a belief in equality of income as a social goal and a willingness to use the arm of the state to promote it. Two very different questions must be asked in evaluating this egalitarian sentiment and the egalitarian measures it has produced. The first is normative and ethical: what is the justification for state intervention to promote equality? The second is positive and scientific: what has been the effect of the measures actually taken? |
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The Ethics of Distribution |
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The ethical principle that would directly justify the distribution of income in a free market society is, ''To each according to |
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