Equality of What? On Welfare, Goods and Capabilities
1990; Volume: 56; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0770451800043943
ISSN1782-1495
Autores Tópico(s)Economic Theory and Institutions
ResumoSummary In his Tanner Lecture of 1979 called Equality of What? Amartya Sen asked what metric egalitarians should use to establish the extent to which their ideal is realised in a given society. In this study I comment on answers to Sen’s question in recent philosophical literature. I describe and criticize what a number of authors (and notably Rawls and Sen) of egalitarian persuasion have said about the dimension(s) or respect(s) in which people should be made more equal, when the price in other values of moving towards greater equality is not intolerable.
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