By Tsuneo Ishikawa

Ishikawa examines the neo-classical and exertions marketplace ways to source of revenue and wealth distribution. He argues that an figuring out of ways each one strategy produces changes in source of revenue and wealth is essential for the learn of source of revenue redistribution, relatively in constructing nations.

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5, 1952: 48–9), and Titmuss (1952). THE CONCEPT OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE 33 pass his or her wealth on to his or her children, instead of the view of a person who inherits it, he or she is fully entitled to choose to leave some wealth (part of which is in the form of education) to his or her posterity by refraining from using his or her income extravagantly (Friedman 1962: 164). As long as we follow our instincts, the argument whether to regard it as luck on the part of the person receiving an inheritance or free choice on the part of the person leaving the wealth does not get us anywhere.

7 A surprising feature of the distribution of wealth statistics in the UK and the USA is its extreme skewness. 5 per cent of households. 7 per cent of total household net worth (Smith 1988: 24, Table 2). 5). There clearly exists an extremely wealthy class in both countries. 7 We provide have some additional time-series information concerning wealth distribution in Japan. Because of a lack of data only the movement in the distribution of financial assets can be discussed here. The differences between income groups in financial asset holdings tended to reduce significantly from the end of the 1950s to the early 1970s.

What should be noted is that Marx conceived a qualitative change in the concept of need itself to bring about an increase in productive incentives and abilities and make it possible to implement a distribution based on the new criterion, as he stated that the complete reorganization of division of labour led people to recognize labour itself as a part of needs. Though often misunderstood, his statement does not imply that an unlimited growth of productivity would fulfill the immutable needs to the point of satiation.

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