Equality of Talent
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- essays
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Economics and Philosophy
- Vol. 1 (2), 151-188
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266267100002455
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.Keywords
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