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Depending on the user’s inclinations, ‘equity’ can mean almost anything; this user will adopt a meaning which has been followed by economists and other social scientists since the late 1960s (see particularly Foley 1967), a meaning close to equality or fairness.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Feldman, A.M. (1987). Equity. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_18-1
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