TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sen,Amartya Kumar
TI  - On economic inequality
T2  - Radcliffe lectures
SN  - 019828182X
U1  - 330.155 
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon
KW  - ECONOMIA DEL BIENESTAR
KW  - EQUIDAD SOCIAL
N1  - Bibliografía:p. 107-113; 1 Welfare Economics, Utilitarianism, and Equity -- 2 Measures of Inequality -- 3 Inequality as a Quasi‐Ordering -- 4 Work, Needs, and Inequality
N2  - This book, which was first published in 1973, presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of the measurement of economic inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new annexe added in 1997, which is as large as the original book, Amartya Sen, jointly with James Foster, critically surveys the literature that followed the publication of the first edition of the book, and evaluates the main analytical issues in the appraisal of economic inequality and poverty. The technical and non‐technical sections of the book are not presented separately, but it is possible to skip or skim through the formal sections and go directly from the intuitive presentation of the axioms to the intuitive explanation of the results
ER  -