On Economic Inequality

ISBN: 9780198281931

出版社: Oxford Univ Pr

出版年: 1997-2

页数: 276

定价: $ 56.50

装帧: Pap

内容简介

First published in 1973, this book presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new introduction, Amartya Sen, jointly with James Foster, critically surveys the literature that followed the r s1ication of this book, and also evaluates the main analytical issues in the appraisal of economic inequality and poverty.