An Analysis of Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined

An Analysis of Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined
Author: Elise Klein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0429939930
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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.

Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined

Amartya Sen's Inequality Re-Examined
Author: Elise Klein
Publisher: Macat Library
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781912284719
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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.

Inequality Reexamined

Inequality Reexamined
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1995-03-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0674256611
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The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum “all people are created equal” serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and 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. By concentrating on the equity and efficiency of social arrangements in promoting freedoms and capabilities of individuals, Sen adds an important new angle to arguments about such vital issues as gender inequalities, welfare policies, affirmative action, and public provision of health care and education.

The Idea of Justice

The Idea of Justice
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674060474
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Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.

Inequality Reexamined

Inequality Reexamined
Author: Amartya Kumar Sen (econoom)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1992
Genre: Equality
ISBN: 9780191596896
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Development as Freedom

Development as Freedom
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 030787429X
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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Choice, Welfare and Measurement

Choice, Welfare and Measurement
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674127784
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"Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on individual and social choice, preference and rationality, and aggregation and economic measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues."--P. [4] of cover.

On Economic Inequality

On Economic Inequality
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198281931
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In this classic text, first published in 1973, Amartya Sen relates the theory of welfare economics to the study of economic inequality. He presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. In his masterful analysis, Sen assesses various approaches to measuring inequality and delineates the causes and effects of economic disparities. Containing the four lectures from the original edition as well as a new introduction, this timeless study is essential reading for economists, philosophers, and social scientists. In a substantial new annexe, Amartya Sen, jointly with James Foster, critically surveys the literature that followed the publication of this book, and also evaluates the main analytical issues in the appraisal of economic inequality and poverty.

Rationality and Freedom

Rationality and Freedom
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 756
Release: 2004-03-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674013513
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Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

Collective Choice and Social Welfare

Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674919211
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Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been recognized for its groundbreaking role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of research in social choice, including aggregative assessment. It has also had a large influence on international organizations, including the United Nations, notably in its work on human development. The book showed that the "impossibility theorems" in social choice theory--led by the pioneering work of Kenneth Arrow--do not negate the possibility of reasoned and democratic social choice. Sen's ideas about social choice, welfare economics, inequality, poverty, and human rights have continued to evolve since the book's first appearance. This expanded edition preserves the text of the original while presenting eleven new chapters of fresh arguments and results. "Expanding on the early work of Condorcet, Pareto, Arrow, and others, Sen provides rigorous mathematical argumentation on the merits of voting mechanisms...For those with graduate training, it will serve as a frequently consulted reference and a necessity on one's book shelf." --J. F. O'Connell, Choice