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Equality of Talent
Abstract
If one is an egalitarian, what should one want to equalize? Opportunities or outcomes? Resources or welfare? These positions are usually conceived to be very different. I argue in this paper that the distinction is misconceived: the only coherent conception of resource equality implies welfare equality, in an appropriately abstract description of the problem. In this section, I motivate the program which the rest of the paper carries out.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Roemer, J. E.
- Venue
- Economics and Philosophy
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1985-10
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 151-188
- ISSN
- 0266-2671 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-0028
- OpenAlex
- W2115310118
- Cited by
- 237
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 23.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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