(The Macat Library) 1st Edition
by Elise Klein (Author)
Amartya Sen’s Inequality Re-Examined
is a seminal text setting out a theory to evaluate social arrangements
and inequality. By asking the question, ‘equality of what’?, Sen shows
that (in)equality should be assessed as human freedom; for people to
have the ability to pursue and achieve goals they value or have reason
to value.
The text lays out the fundamental ideas to Amartya
Sen’s Capability Approach. This approach is celebrated in diverse
academic disciplines because of its specific contribution towards the
improvement to debates on inequality beyond economic deprivation and
utility measures. Furthermore, the arguments put forward by Sen in Inequality Re-Examined
has had many practical applications throughout policy circles including
the Human Development Index, the Multi –Dimensional Poverty Measure,
the compilation of lists of capabilities and drawing further attention
to human agency and democracy. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for
Economics in 1998 for his contribution to welfare economics; the core
arguments of this work is found in this book.
