Presidential Address: The Nature of Inequality

Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen: Harvard University

Chapter 1 in Issues in Contemporary Economics, 1991, pp 3-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What is economic inequality? At one level, economic inequality is a very obvious thing. It is a state of the world in which some people are poor, perhaps thoroughly deprived, while others lead affluent lives -even roll in luxury. Caviar for some, and starvation for others. But the contrasts are often far more subtle and much harder to identify.

Keywords: Social Choice; Economic Inequality; Public Affair; Total Utility; Primary Good (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11573-0_1

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