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Depending on the user’s inclinations, ‘equity’ can mean almost anything; this user will adopt a meaning which has been followed by economists and other social scientists since the late 1960s (see particularly Foley 1967), a meaning close to equality or fairness.
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Feldman, A.M. (2018). Equity. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_18
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