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Equality of Opportunity

A.F. Heath
- pp 4722-4724
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The authors explored the concept of equality of opportunity, particularly as it has been frequently used in the sociology of education, and used it as an explanatory concept when discussing class differences in access to privileged educational institutions.
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This article explores the concept of equality of opportunity, particularly as it has been frequently used in the sociology of education. As well as equality being a normative ideal, inequality of opportunity has also often been used as an explanatory concept, e.g., when discussing class differences in access to privileged educational institutions.

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Occupational choice and entrepreneurship: From necessity to opportunity

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Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a reference-dependent theory of consumer choice, which explains such effects by a deformation of indifference curves about the reference point, in which losses and disadvantages have greater impact on preferences than gains and advantages.
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What Is the Point of Equality

Elizabeth Anderson
- 01 Jan 1999 - 
TL;DR: The authors argues that the problems stem from a flawed understanding of the point of equality and argues that in focusing on correcting a supposed cosmic injustice, egalitarian writing has lost sight of the distinctively political aims of egalitarianism.
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On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice

Gerald A. Cohen
- 01 Jul 1989 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the Tanner Lecture of 1979 called "Equality of What?" Amartya Sen asked what aspects of a person's condition should count in a fundamental way for egalitarians, and not merely as cause of or evidence of or proxy for what they regard as fundamental.
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What is Equality? Part 2: Equality of Resources

TL;DR: This article argued that an equal division of resources presupposes an economic market of some form, mainly as an analytical device but also, to a certain extent, as an actual political institution.