Download or read book Freedom, Efficiency and Equality written by T. M. Wilkinson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defends equality against the objection that, due to its failure to provide incentives, it must conflict with either freedom or efficiency, or both. It explains the problem of incentives, the relationship between freedom, efficiency, and equality, and the difficulties of describing an ideal egalitarian economy, before concluding with its own radical solution--a scheme of social duty in a market system. Combining techniques from several disciplines, this work provides an accessible discussion of a central topic in political theory and normative economics.