Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.
An online portal to resources and writings on economic justice theories, policies, and analyses where the specific focus is the principle of desert, equality of opportunity, or luck.
Read the book JustDeserts.org is also a companion to Chance, Merit, and Economic Inequality
I want to insist on this point: the key issue is the justification of inequalities rather than their magnitude as such. —Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), 264
Robinson, Azerrad, and Matthews have each argued that equality of opportunity would represent a “dystopian, totalitarian nightmare” and even that it is “impossible.”1 The underlying argument seems to be the following: In the relevant population, there is diversity of body, character, parents, etc. at some time period, \(t\). Difference between individuals A and B at time, \(t\), means they do not have equality of opportunity for outcome Y at time, \(t+k\) (e.
Everyone wants equality of opportunity. It is not a subject of political debate, but the precondition of political debate. Promises to achieve equality of opportunity, like promises to create jobs or protect America abroad, are the white noise of campaign season, drawing neither notice nor challenge. Respected think tanks like the Brookings Institution establish entire projects devoted to figuring out how to advance equality of opportunity. Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, two of the best microeconomists of their generation, have joined forces to start the Equality of Opportunity Project, which is meant to produce hard numbers about opportunity across time and across regions.
The Center for Social Development is a hub for implementing and testing applied social innovations that broaden well-being for …
Organizes scholarly activities in the area of law and economics, with a particular focus on the intersection between welfare economics …
Policy oriented academic examination of opportunity in America.
The Economic Growth & Mobility Project is a new initiative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia dedicated to promoting equal …
The aim of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) is to change the national conversation around poverty and economic …
Pew’s financial security and mobility project studies the financial well-being of American families and how their balance sheets relate …
It’s time to end poverty and rebuild the middle class in America. We believe cash is an effective way to achieve that.
What institutions and policies are most conducive to human flourishing? The Good Society is a book of diagnoses and prescriptions for …
Economic justice is giving to each exactly what they deserve.
Our mission is to provide easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding well-being and opportunity in America and to …
The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society is committed to bringing ethical reflection to bear on important social problems through …
The 99 Percent Plan is a joint Roosevelt Institute-Salon series that explores how progressives can shape a new vision for the economy.
Previously the Equality of Opportunity Project, Opportunity Insights uses big data to empower policymakers and civic leaders to create …
Political Philosophy for the Real World offers a home for original scholarly research that confronts the very problems ideal theory …
We construct a publicly available atlas of children’s outcomes in adulthood by Census tract using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire U.S. population. For each tract, we estimate children’s earnings distributions, incarceration rates, and other outcomes in adulthood by parental income, race, and gender.
Roemer argues that there is consequently a “before” and an “after” in the notion of equality of opportunity: before the competition starts, opportunities must be equalized, by social intervention if need be; but after it begins, individuals are on their own. The different views of equal opportunity should be judged according to where they place the starting gate which separates “before” from “after.” Roemer works out in a precise way how to determine the location of the starting gate in the different views.