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Author Fishkin, Joseph.

Title Bottlenecks : a new theory of equal opportunity / Joseph Fishkin.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford University, 2009) under title: Opportunity pluralism.
Contents Equal opportunity and its problems -- Opportunities and human development -- Opportunity pluralism -- Applications.
Summary Equal opportunity is a powerful idea, and one with extremely broad appeal in contemporary politics, political theory, and law. But what does it mean? On close examination, the most attractive existing conceptions of equal opportunity turn out to be impossible to achieve in practice, or even in theory. As long as families are free to raise their children differently, no two people's opportunities will be equal; nor is it possible to disentangle someone's abilities or talents from her background advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, given different abilities and disabilities, different people.
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Subject Discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Philosophy.
Discrimination -- Law and legislation.
United States.
Philosophy.
Equality -- Philosophy.
Equality -- Philosophy.
Equality.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Anti-discrimination law.
Other Form: Print version: Fishkin, Joseph. Bottlenecks 9780199812141 (DLC) 2013028228 (OCoLC)853313631
ISBN 9780199812158 (electronic book)
0199812152 (electronic book)
9781306197397
1306197392
9780199812141
0199812144