Equality of Opportunity / / John E. Roemer.
John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscrimination principle, states that in the competition for positions in society, individuals should be judged only on attributes relevant to the performance of th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Circumstances, Types, and Autonomous Choice
- 3 Justifying the Proposal
- 4 A Formal Definition of Equality of Opportunity
- 5 Incentive Properties of the EOp Mechanism
- 6 Equality of Opportunity with Production
- 7 Equality of Opportunity for Welfare
- 8 Equality of Opportunity for Health
- 9 Education and Advantage
- 10 Equal-Opportunity Unemployment Insurance
- 11 The EOp Distribution of Educational Finance in the United States
- 12 The Scope and Extent of Equal Opportunity
- 13 To What Extent Should We Equalize Opportunities
- 14 Affirmative Action
- 15 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index