Brute Luck, Option Luck, and Equalityof Initial Opportunities*

By Peter Vallentyne. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 2002

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Compensation and responsibility (2011, background): “See Fleurbaey (1995b, 2001), Vallentyne (2002) and Vandenbroucke (2001) for critical discussions of natural reward, and Cappelen and Tungodden (2004a) for an in-depth study of reward schemes.”
Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France (2009, background): “Now we explore another possible justification for EOP-S, in a welfarist setting inspired by Arneson (1989) and Vallentyne (2002), and in which welfare should be equal across individuals, only to the extent that they exercise the same degree of responsibility.”
Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence (2012, background): “For instance, Vallentyne (2002) suggests to compensate only for initial brute luck, that is, brute luck that occurs before individuals are deemed responsible for their choices and preferences.10 The last form of luck is Dworkin’s option luck and arises when individuals deliberately take risk, which…”