The Ethics of Redistribution [Paperback]

Baron de Jouvenel presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.In this essay, split between discussions of the socialist ideal and state expenditure, Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.In this essay, split between discussions of the socialist ideal and state expenditure, Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.The Ethics of Redistribution was originally delivered as a Boutwood Lecture at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1949. The Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel was then an already internationally regarded philosopher whose learned style was a calculated blend of moral. historical and political considerations. In this essay, split between discussions of the socialist ideal and state expenditure, he presents the fraught economic, societal and ethical implications attendant upon the question of income redistribution.Foreword by Sir Will Spens; Preface; Lecture I. The Socialist Ideal; Lecture II. State Expenditure: Appendix: the potentialities of pure redistribution.