What's Fair?: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0674950879
- ISBN-13
- 9780674950870
- Series
- What's Fair?
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Jennifer L. Hochschild
Description
Using a long questionnaire and in-depth interviews, Hochschild examines the ideals and contemporary practices of Americans on the subject of distributive justice, and discovers neither the rich nor the nonrich support the downward redistribution of wealth.
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- 1981
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- 1994
- 95 pages
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