# Equality of Capabilities, or Equality of Outcomes?

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/equality-of-capabilities-or-equality-of-outcomes>

**By** Elizabeth Anderson, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus

**Published:** May 5, 2014

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Elizabeth Anderson joins us this week to talk about egalitarianism. Should we be concerned about an equal distribution of resources in a society?

## Shownotes:

In this episode Aaron Powell and Trevor Burrus talk about egalitarianism with Professor Elizabeth Anderson. Should we be concerned about an equal distribution of resources in a society? An equal distribution of outcomes? Is it a bad thing for some people to be worse off than others through no fault of their own? And whose job is it to enforce such distributions—government or markets?

Anderson is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.