Inequality Reexamined 0198283342, 9780198283348
Professor Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous work, On Economic Inequality, and provides new analyses and in
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English Pages 224 [222] Year 1992
Table of contents :
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction: Questions and Themes......Page 16
1.1 Why Equality? What Equality?......Page 27
1.2 Impartiality and Equality......Page 31
1.3 Human Diversity and Basal Equality......Page 34
1.4 Equality versus Liberty?......Page 36
1.5 Plurality and Alleged Emptiness......Page 38
1.6 Means and Freedoms......Page 41
1.7 Income Distribution, Weil-Being and Freedom......Page 43
2.1 Freedom and Choice......Page 46
2.2 Real Income, Opportunities and Selection......Page 49
2.3 Freedom Distinguished from Resources......Page 51
3.1 Capability Sets......Page 54
3.2 Value Objects and Evaluative Spaces......Page 57
3.3 Selection and Weighting......Page 59
3.4 Incompleteness: Fundamental and Pragmatic......Page 61
3.5 Capability or Functionings?......Page 64
3.6 Utility vis-à-vis Capability......Page 68
4.1 Well-Being vis-à-vis Agency......Page 71
4.2 Agency, Instrumentality and Realization......Page 72
4.3 Can Freedom Conflict with Well-Being?......Page 74
4.4 Freedom and Disadvantageous Choices......Page 77
4.5 Control and Effective Freedom......Page 79
4.6 Freedom from Hunger, Malaria and Other Maladies......Page 81
4.7 The Relevance of Well-Being......Page 84
5.1 The Informational Bases of Justice......Page 88
5.2 Rawlsian Justice and the Political Conception......Page 90
5.3 Primary Goods and Capabilities......Page 94
5.4 Diversities: Ends and Personal Characteristics......Page 100
6.1 Space Choice and Evaluative Purpose......Page 103
6.2 Shortfalls, Attainments and Potentials......Page 104
6.3 Inequality, Welfare and Justice......Page 108
6.4 Welfare-Based Inequality Evaluation......Page 110
7.1 Inequality and Poverty......Page 117
7.2 The Nature of Poverty......Page 122
7.3 Lowness vis-à-vis Inadequacy of Incomes......Page 124
7.4 Do Concepts Matter?......Page 127
7.5 Poverty in Rich Countries......Page 129
8.1 Class and Classification......Page 132
8.2 Gender and Inequality......Page 137
8.3 Interregional Contrasts......Page 140
9.1 Questions of Equality......Page 144
9.2 Equality, Space and Diversity......Page 145
9.3 Plurality, Incompleteness and Evaluation......Page 146
9.4 Data, Observations and Effective Freedoms......Page 150
9.5 Aggregation, Egalitarianism and Efficiency......Page 151
9.6 Alternative Defences of Inequality......Page 153
9.7 Incentives, Diversity and Egalitarianism......Page 156
9.8 On Equality as a Social Concern......Page 158
9.9 Responsibility and Fairness......Page 163
9.10 Capability, Freedom and Motivations......Page 165
References......Page 168
B......Page 214
G......Page 215
L......Page 216
R......Page 217
T......Page 218
Z......Page 219
I......Page 220
U......Page 221
W......Page 222
