Le Grand, Julian 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7864-0118
(1990)
Equity versus efficiency: the elusive trade-off.
Ethics, 100 (3).
pp. 554-568.
ISSN 0014-1704
Abstract
The objectives of equity and efficiency appear high on most lists of the aims of welfare policy. That a welfare program should be assessed at least in part by its ability to promote equity, fairness or justice seems almost axiomatic. That a program should not at the same time create inefficiency or, indeed, that it should actually reduce it, is also a widely accepted criterion for assessment. There will, of course, be other criteria for evaluation - the impact of the program on individual liberties, for example - but none perhaps with the salience of these two.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/loi/et |
| Additional Information: | © 1990 The University of Chicago |
| Divisions: | Social Policy STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2008 15:28 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 05:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/3990 |
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