Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
We study the difference between the ex post and the ex ante perspectives in equality of opportunity (EOp), and the … possibility of a clash between them. We argue that ex ante EOp is a potential trap because someone motivated by ex post EOp may be … led to believe that ex ante EOp is another natural embodiment of the same idea. As we show, it is not. Moreover, we …