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Equality of Talent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

John E. Roemer
John E. Roemer
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University of California, Davis
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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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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 1985 , pp. 151 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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