The Optimal Distribution of Income
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چکیده
At the end of their debate with R. H. Str&, F. M. Fisher and J. Rothenberg make a plea for going beyond the Pareto optimality criterion in analyzing issues in welfare eoonomies.l The present study is in the spirit of this plea: an attempt is made in this paper to derive bounds on the optimal distribution of income under a particular set of value judgments. Because of a general reluctance of economists to make value judgments and to engage in interpersonal comparisons of utility, there has actually been little work done OR the question of the optimal distribution of income. Most of the work that has been done in that area has been concerned with ansIyeing the determinants of income distribution.* Ku-1 Marx, of eoume, felt that jneome ought to be distributed according to need,l but even here it is not clear without knowing how needs are distributed what kind of income distribution this tenet implies. Plato is perhapa one of the fear who have been explicit on the question of the optimal distribution of inoome. He felt that no one in
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