Living As Equals

By Ronald Dworkin and Albert O. Hirschman

Book Overview

This is a collection of essays by six prominent social scientists on the ideal of economic and social equality and the ways, if any, in which public action can help to achieve it. * Amartya Sen offers an overview of how equality can be furthered by public action. * A. B. Atkinson proposes an official poverty line in Britain as a way to focus public debate and political action. * E. J. Hobsbawm explores the tensions within the rival demands of language, nation, and culture. * Dorothy Wedderburn argues the case for the superiority of public action in relation to the National Health Service. * Albert O. Hirschman scrutinizes the rhetorical devices used to counter proposals for reform. * Ronald Dworkin demonstrates that liberty and equality are not, as some argue, in conflict.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198292058
• ISBN13: 9780198292050
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.8"