Equality of Opportunity: A progress report

Equality of opportunity: A progress report

Probably the most universally supported conception of justice in advanced societies is that of equal opportunity. What does this mean, and how can it be formalized? The first treatment of this problem in social choice theory involved interpreting equality of opportunity as equality of opportunity sets, that is, rendering the sets of choices available to di¤erent individuals the same. In my view...

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Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Opportunity Sets

We characterize two different approaches to the idea of equality of opportunity. Roemer’s social ordering is motivated by a concern to compensate for the effects of certain (non-responsibility) factors on outcomes. Van de gaer’s social ordering is concerned with the equalization of the opportunity sets to which people have access. We show how different invariance axioms open the possibility to ...

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" Equality of opportunity * " 1 2 by 3 John E. Roemer 4 and 5 Alain Trannoy 6 7 1. Introduction 8 In the welfarist tradition of social-choice theory, egalitarianism means equality of 9 welfare or utility 1. Conservative critics of egalitarianism rightly protest that it is highly 10 questionable that this kind of equality is ethically desirable, as it fails to hold persons 11 responsible for the...

Equality of Opportunity

" Equality of opportunity * " 1 2 by 3 John E. Roemer 4 and 5 Alain Trannoy 6 7 1. Introduction 8 In the welfarist tradition of social-choice theory, egalitarianism means equality of 9 welfare or utility 1. Conservative critics of egalitarianism rightly protest that it is highly 10 questionable that this kind of equality is ethically desirable, as it fails to hold persons 11 responsible for the...