Equality and equal opportunity for welfare

By Richard J. Arneson. 1989

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Fairness in Machine Learning: Lessons from Political Philosophy (2017, background): “A second major strand of debate in egalitarian thinking considers the role of notions like choice Huseby (2016) and desert Temkin (1986) in determining which inequalities are acceptable? In which circumstances, and to what extent, should people be held responsible for the unequal status they find th”
Inequality of Opportunity in Europe (2012, background): “However, some philosophers (e.g., Arneson, 1989; Cohen, 1989) have criticized the separating line between those aspects for which a person should be held accountable (preferences) and those for which he should not (resources).”
Utilitarianism and the Theory of Justice (2002, background): “−→ R is i’s utility function8 and ui = Ui(x) is the utility level of individual i ∈ {1, . . . , n} in alternative x ∈ X. Utilities are interpreted 6 See, for example, Arneson (1989), Roemer (1996) and, for an unsympathetic critique, Anderson (1999).”
Inequality of Opportunities vs. Inequality of Outcomes: Are Western Societies All Alike? (2008, background): “For instance, if the in uence of social origin is driven by the intergenerational (14)A similar ambiguity arises in the growing literature on the measurement of the intergenerational earnings elasticity (Solon, 1999) (15)See for instance Dworkin (1981), Arneson (1989), and Roemer (1993) for a defens”
Luck, Choice and Responsibility (2014, unknown): “…can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: Luck, Choice and Responsibility BY Johanna Mollerstrom, Bjørn-Atle Reme, AND Erik Ø. Sørensen Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2408465 1 Luck, Choice and Responsibility”
Kantian optimization: A microfoundation for cooperation (2015, background): “…with a conception of equality of opportunity that has developed in the last thirty years in political philosophy (see Rawls, 1971; Dworkin, 1981; Arneson, 1989; Cohen, 1989), but in which inequality in those earnings is then reduced because of the necessity to maintain ‘community,’ an ethos…”
Equality of Opportunity (1998, methodology): “Later in the decade, further reactions to Dworkin came from philosophers, notably Arneson (1989) and Cohen (1989).”
Equity and Development (2006, background): “In contrast, the political philosophy upon which the 2006 WDR draws has, at its root, the idea of equal opportunity, as it was first outlined by Ronald Dworkin [6] in his theory of resource egalitarianism, amended and modified by Richard Arneson [1] and G.”
On the apparent conflict between individual and group fairness (2019, background): “A prominent approach, known as luck egalitarianism, holds that inequalities between people are only just provided they are not the result of brute luck [4, 29, 46].”
Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil (2007, unknown): “2 Notably Arneson (1989), Cohen (1989) and Dworkin (1981).”
Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity (2013, background): “For the background philosophical literature, see Dworkin (1981a,b), Arneson (1989) and Cohen (1989).”