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This chapter is concerned with differences in economic welfare and not, except incidentally, with the related but distinct issues of differences in power, status and security; nor is it concerned with inequality of opportunity. Such inequality is one of the causes of differences in economic welfare and its reduction may be a desirable policy objective but it is erroneous to consider such a reduction as either a first step towards, or as an alternative to, a diminution of economic differences — equality of opportunity is no more and no less than a situation in which everybody has an equal chance of attaining or suffering states of economic welfare which may differ widely.
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© 1977 Helmuth Heisler, John Carrier, Bleddyn Davies, Neil Fraser, Howard Jones, Peter Kaim-Caudle, Ian Kendall, Thomas McPherson, Della Adam Nevitt, Muriel Nissel, Barbara Rodgers, J. D. Stewart, George F. Thomason
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Kaim-Caudle, P. (1977). Inequality. In: Heisler, H. (eds) Foundations of Social Administration. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86159-0_6
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