Egalitarianism and the Generation of Inequality

' a monumental study on the practical and theoretical aspects of egalitarianism'Financial Times

• Part 1 The rise of egalitarianism: the early principles of inequality and equality; the transition to liberalism; the equality of man in the eighteenth century; eighteenth century developments propitious to egalitarianism; action delayed; the movement into redistribution; the formation of modern egalitarianism; issues and influences reviewed. Part 2 Distributions of income and wealth in the living economy: distributions displayed; the form of recent distributions of income; the historical course of change in the distribution of income; the redistribution of income; the distribution of wealth in some contemporary economies; the historical course of change in the distribution of wealth; the formation of distributions of income and wealth; the significance of the statistical record. Part 3 Egalitarianism analysed and assessed: the basis of egalitarianism; an assessment of egalitarianism.