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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674452550

ISBN-139780674452558

eBay Product ID (ePID)91054

Product Key Features

Book TitleInequality Reexamined

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicSociology / General, General, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Political Freedom

GenrePolitical Science, Philosophy, Social Science

AuthorAmartya Sen

Book SeriesRussell Sage Foundation Bks.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-005514

ReviewsAmartya Sen has distilled a decade's reflection on questions of equality, poverty, and welfare into [this] book...Economic philosophers will be glad to see Sen's ideas summarized and interwoven...He is certainly a master of his craft., Sen's acute analysis and his remarkable powers of making subtle and relevant distinctions combine with his astonishing range of information to make instruments suitable for immediate political application ... compelling and elegantly argued book., Sen brings a hard-edged intellect to regions of thought usually regarded as slushy and amorphous. The results are impressive...Anyone interested in the topics of freedom, equality, or justice would profit from a close reading of this book.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal320.011

Table Of ContentPreface Introduction: Questions and Themes 1. Equality of What? 1.1 Why Equality? What Equality? 1.2 Impartiality and Equality 1.3 Human Diversity and Basal Equality 1.4 Equality versus Liberty? 1.5 Plurality and Alleged Emptiness 1.6 Means and Freedoms 1.7 Income Distribution, Well-Being and Freedom 2. Freedom, Achievement and Resources 2.1 Freedom and Choice 2.2 Real Income, Opportunities and Selection 2.3 Freedom Distinguished from Resources 3. Functionings and Capability 3.1 Capability Sets 3.2 Value Objects and Evaluative Spaces 3.3 Selection and Weighting 3.4 Incompleteness: Fundamental and Pragmatic 3.5 Capability or Functionings? 3.6 Utility vis-?-vis Capability 4. Freedom, Agency and Well-Being 4.1 Well-Being vis-agrave;-vis Agency 4.2 Agency, Instrumentality and Realization 4.3 Can Freedom Conflict with Well-Being? 4.4 Freedom and Disadvantageous Choices 4.5 Control and Effective Freedom 4.6 Freedom from Hunger, Malaria and Other Maladies 4.7 The Relevance of Well-Being 5. Justice and Capability 5.1 The Informational Bases of Justice 5.2 Rawlsian Justice and the Political Conception 5.3 Primary Goods and Capabilities 5.4 Diversities: Ends and Personal Characteristics 6. Welfare Economics and Inequality 6.1 Space Choice and Evaluative Purpose 6.2 Shortfalls, Attainments and Potentials 6.3 Inequality, Welfare and Justice 6.4 Welfare-Based Inequality Evaluation 7. Poverty and Affluence 7.1 Inequality and Poverty 7.2 The Nature of Poverty 7.3 Lowness vis-agrave;-vis Inadequacy of Incomes 7.4 Do Concepts Matter? 7.5 Poverty in Rich Countries 8. Class, Gender and Other Groups 8.1 Class and Classification 8.2 Gender and Inequality 8.3 Interregional Contrasts 9. The Demands Of Equality 9.1 Questions of Equality 9.2 Equality, Space and Diversity 9.3 Plurality, Incompleteness and Evaluation 9.4 Data, Observations and Effective Freedoms 9.5 Aggregation, Egalitarianism and Efficiency 9.6 Alternative Defences of Inequality 9.7 Incentives, Diversity and Egalitarianism 9.8 On Equality as a Social Concern 9.9 Responsibility and Fairness 9.10 Capability, Freedom and Motivations References Index of Names Index of Subjects

SynopsisIn this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum all men are created equal serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He argues for concentrating on higher and more basic values: individual capabilities and freedom to achieve objectives.

LC Classification NumberJC575.S45 1992