On economic inequality

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Title:

On economic inequality

Author:

Sen, Amartya, 1933-

ISBN:

9780198281931

9780198292975

Personal Author:

Sen, Amartya, 1933-

Edition:

Enl. ed., with a substantial annexe "On economic inequality after a quarter century" / James Foster and Amartya Kumar Sen.

Publication Information:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

General Note:

Originally published: 1973. (Radcliffe lectures ; 1972).

Contents:

1. Welfare Economics, Utilitarianism, and Equity -- 2. Measures of Inequality -- 3. Inequality as a Quasi-Ordering -- 4. Work, Needs, and Inequality -- Annexe: 'On Economic Inequality after a Quarter Century' / James Foster and Amartya Sen.

Abstract:

This book, first published in 1973, presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements.

Subject Term:

Welfare economics.

Equality.

Added Author:

Foster, James E. (James Eric), 1955- On economic inequality after a quarter century.

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First published in 1973, this book presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new introduction, Amartya Sen, jointly with James Foster, critically surveys the literature that followed the r s1ication of this book, and also evaluates the main analytical issues in the appraisal of economic inequality and poverty.