| Definitions | | Matthew principle |
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noun (-, sg=Matthew principle)
- The notion that more will be given to those that already have.
- 2002, Will Europe Work?, ed. Martin Kohll & Mojca Novak, Routledge 2002, p.64:
- :By including all citizens within the same insurance programs and by providing the economically active with clearly earnings-related benefits, the redistributive strategy of the encompassing model can be said to follow the of giving more to those who already have much.
Etymology: Named from w:Saint Matthew, St Matthew, with reference to Matthew 25:29: "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." (KJV)
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