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Talent, Slavery and Envy in Dworkin's Equality of Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2004

MIRIAM COHEN CHRISTOFIDIS
MIRIAM COHEN CHRISTOFIDIS
Affiliation:
University College London
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Abstract

In this article I argue against Ronald Dworkin's rejection of the labour auction in his ‘Equality of Resources’. I criticize Dworkin's claims that the talented would envy the untalented in such an auction, and that the talented in particular would be enslaved by it. I identify some ways in which the talent auction is underdescribed and I compare the results for the condition of the talented of different further descriptions of it. I conclude that Dworkin's deviation from the ‘envy test’ criterion results in an inequality between the talented and the untalented which cannot be justified in egalitarian terms.

Type
Research Article
Information
Utilitas , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , November 2004 , pp. 267 - 287
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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