Part 1 The rise of egalitarianism: the early principles of inequality and equality the transition to liberalism the equality of man in the eighteenth century eighteenth century developments propitious to egalitarianism action delayed the movement into redistribution the formation of modern egalitarianism issues and influences reviewed. Part 2 Distributions of income and wealth in the living economy: distributions displayed the form of recent distributions of income the historical course of change in the distribution of income the redistribution of income the distribution of wealth in some contemporary economies the historical course of change in the distribution of wealth the formation of distributions of income and wealth the significance of the statistical record. Part 3 Egalitarianism analysed and assessed: the basis of egalitarianism an assessment of egalitarianism.
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