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Inequality Reexamined

By Amartya Sen

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780191596896, 9780198289289, 0198283342, 0198289286
DOI
10.1093/0198289286.001.0001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1736945 bytes)
Edition
paperback
Pages
\179
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-13 19:59:08

Description

Amartya Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous seminal work, ‘On Economic Inequality’, first published in 1973 and expanded in 1997, and provides new analyses and insights in this crucial area. The book brings together and develops some of the most important themes of Sen's work over the last decade. He notes that the difference between virtually all contemporary ethical approaches to social arrangements lies not in whether they all demand equality of something, but in what sort of equality they propound. Any claim to equality must take account of the diversity of human beings and their characteristics. Sen argues that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than either their resources or their welfare. He also looks at some types of inequalities that have not yet been studied as systematically as inequalities of class and wealth have been. These include, inter alia, the important issue of gender inequality.

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