Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

DOI10.1093/RESTUD/RDAB101MaRDI QIDQ5058202zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Hufe, Ravi Kanbur, Andreas Peichl

Publication date 19 December 2022

Published in Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab101

zbMATH Keywords

equality of opportunityfairnessinequalitymeasurementpoverty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

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