Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated. This paper -- commissioned as a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Well Being and Public Policy -- provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality...
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2015/03/20
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS7217
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2015/03/20
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Disclosed
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Equality of opportunity : theory and evidence
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opportunity set