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Author
Title
Inequality reexamined / Amartya Sen.
Published
New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
Call Number
JC575 .S45 1992
ISBN
0674452550 (Harvard University Press : acid-free paper)
Description
xiv, 207 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25552088
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-197) and indexes.
Record Appears in
Gift
Gift of Prof. Marvin A. Chirelstein (c.2)
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Gift of Prof. Marvin A. Chirelstein (c.2)
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Questions and Themes
1
1
Equality of What?
12
1.1Why Equality? What Equality?
12
1.2Impartiality and Equality
16
1.3Human Diversity and Basal Equality
19
1.4Equality versus Liberty?
21
1.5Plurality and Alleged Emptiness
23
1.6Means and Freedoms
26
1.7Income Distribution, Well-Being and Freedom
28
2
Freedom, Achievement and Resources
31
2.1Freedom and Choice
31
2.2Real Income, Opportunities and Selection
34
2.3Freedom Distinguished from Resources
36
3
Functionings and Capability
39
3.1Capability Sets
39
3.2Value Objects and Evaluative Spaces
42
3.3Selection and Weighting
44
3.4Incompleteness: Fundamental and Pragmatic
46
3.5Capability or Functionings?
49
3.6Utility vis-a-vis Capability
53
4
Freedom, Agency and Well-Being
56
4.1Well-Being vis-a-vis Agency
56
4.2Agency, Instrumentality and Realization
57
4.3Can Freedom Conflict with Well-Being?
59
4.4Freedom and Disadvantageous Choices
62
4.5Control and Effective Freedom
64
4.6Freedom from Hunger, Malaria and Other Maladies
66
4.7The Relevance of Well-Being
69
5
Justice and Capability
73
5.1The Informational Bases of Justice
73
5.2Rawlsian Justice and the Political Conception
75
5.3Primary Goods and Capabilities
79
5.4Diversities: Ends and Personal Characteristics
85
6
Welfare Economics and Inequality
88
6.1Space Choice and Evaluative Purpose
88
6.2Shortfalls, Attainments and Potentials
89
6.3Inequality, Welfare and Justice
93
6.4Welfare-Based Inequality Evaluation
95
7
Poverty and Affluence
102
7.1Inequality and Poverty
102
7.2The Nature or Poverty
107
7.3Lowness vis-a-vis Inadequacy of Incomes
109
7.4Do Concepts Matter?
112
7.5Poverty in Rich Countries
114
8
Class, Gender and Other Groups
117
8.1Class and Classification
117
8.2Gender and Inequality
122
8.3Interregional Contrasts
125
9
The Demands of Equality
129
9.1Questions of Equality
129
9.2Equality, Space and Diversity
130
9.3Plurality, Incompleteness and Evaluation
131
9.4Data, Observations and Effective Freedoms
135
9.5Aggregation, Egalitarianism and Efficiency
136
9.6Alternative Defences of Inequality
138
9.7Incentives, Diversity and Egalitarianism
141
9.8On Equality as a Social Concern
143
9.9Responsibility and Fairness
148
9.10Capability, Freedom and Motivations
150
References
153
Index of Names
199
Index of Subjects
205