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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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L'équité de l'allocation initiale des permis d'émission négociables de gaz à effet de serre entre entreprises: un éclairage du choix public par la philosophie morale et l'analyse économique.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss l'eclairage que peut apporter la philo! sophie morale et politique, en particulier les theories de la justice distributive, en tenant compte de deux aspects importants du probleme: (1) le bien a distribuer a des caracteristiques particulieres, notamment the negociabilite; (2) les agents attributaires sont des entreprises and non les sujets moraux traditionnels que sont les personnes phys
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Elimination of Poverty: Challenges and Islamic Strategies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on four basic tenants of the Islamic ethical system and treat the Islamic ethos as an ideal, through which socioeconomic policies dealing with poverty elimination are assessed, and conclude that Islamic ethics support a poverty-alleviation strategy based on the principle of promoting economic growth with productive equity.
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Mobile phone penetration and its impact on inequality in the Western Balkan countries

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of mobile phone penetration on inequality in Western Balkan countries was analyzed by using ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares models, and the results confirmed the income-redistributive effect of such mobile penetration.
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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.