important issues of public concern. The themefor the 1997 Section F Meeting of “Equality and Opportunity” surely satisfied …

Given the emphasis in recent welfare economics, political philosophy andsocial policy on the concept of opportunity … of constraint has become pressing. But all approaches tomeasuring choice and opportunity are confronted by their …, by incorporating a check for unobserved constraints,shows that the concept of opportunity can be operationalised …

This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the problem of measuring the informationcontained in opportunity sets. In … many choice situations, the items that can be selectedfrom an opportunity set (the objects of choice) do not coincide with …