The economics and politics of wealth redistribution / Gordon Tullock ; edited and with an introduction by Charles K. Rowley.

Author: Tullock, Gordon.

Imprint:Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, c2005.

Descriptionxviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Income redistribution -- Helping the poor -- Reasons for redistribution [both 1983 and 1986] -- Objectives of income redistribution -- Charitable gifts -- Local redistribution -- Aid in kind -- Demand revealing, transfers, and rent seeking -- Epilogue: the grating people -- The Machiavellians and the well-intentioned -- Helping the poor vs. helping the well-organized -- Horizontal transfers -- Information and logrolling -- The mixed case -- General welfare or welfare for the poor only -- Old age pensions -- Risk, charity, and miscellaneous aspects of social security -- Education and medicine -- Administrative transfers -- Giving life -- What to do, what to do.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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