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9 - Prioritarianism and Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Erwin Ooghe
Edited by
Matthew D. Adler  and
Ole F. Norheim
Matthew D. Adler
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
Ole F. Norheim
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
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Summary

In this chapter, I first summarize and critically discuss the different normative views that are operational in the academic literature on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and compare it to utilitarians and Rawlsians. I finish with a brief discussion of several plausible extensions of the resource allocation problem.

Keywords

prioritarianismeducationopportunities versus outcomesintrinsic versus instrumental valueresource allocationdynamic skill formation
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Prioritarianism in Practice , pp. 408 - 458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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