Bottlenecks:A New Theory of Equal Opportunity

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Re: Bottlenecks:A New Theory of Equal Opportunity

Postby quantropy » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:23 am

First Impressions
How do you make sure that everyone has equal opportunities? It's a tricky question, since the paths people can follow are limited and there needs to be some way of selecting who gets through. One way of dealing with this is to allow everyone to take part in competitive testing, but while this may be notionally egalitarian, it has quite a few problems. It's hard to get away from the effect of family background. The result of a single test can determine the whole of a person's life. It also tends to focus on a one dimensional scale of values, rather than allowing each person to develop their values for themselves. This book introduces Opportunity pluralism which tries to make sure that people have multiple paths to choose from. The book is clearly aimed at an academic readership, for instance discussing the work of John Rawls, but I hope that it will also be accessible to the general reader.

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