ECON101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Natural Disaster
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Economists agree about efficiency; they agree that it makes sense to make the economic pie as large as possible and to produce it at the lowest possible cost. But they do not agree about equity; they do not agree about what are fair shares of the economic pie for all the people who make it. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups: It is not fair if the result is not fair. It is not fair if the rules are not fair. Income can be transferred from people with high incomes to people with low incomes only by taxing the high incomes. Ta(cid:454)i(cid:374)g people"s i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373) e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:373)akes them work less. Everything that is valuable must be owned by individuals and that the state must ensure that theft is prevented: private property may be transferred from one person to another only by voluntary exchange.
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