roduced in another country where equally enlightened social legislation is not enforced. If no restrictions are placed on the unfairly competitive imports, the firm will go out of business, and neither people with disabilities nor those with no disabilities will be able to be employed by the firm. If restrictions are applied to the offending imported products, charges may be 4effectively lodged against the United States for either attempting to protect an uncompetitive industry, or attempting to enforce American social goals on the rest of the world. This latter charge would be a difficult one for many equal opportunity advocates to defend, as they are often the same people who chastize the American government for attempting to impose American political goals on the rest of the world.
From this brief discussion of equal opportunity, it can be seen that the precise manifestation of the concept in a speci fic situation must be defined, before a meaningful analysis of the equality of opportunity/economic efficiency relationship may be m
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