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Title: Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen ISBN: 0-674-45256-9 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Philosphy of Economics
Comment: The most basic idea, that one person's equality is another's inequality, is explored in detail. Sen illuminates many of the flaws in standard economic thinking, and how the philosophical underpinnings of economics guide and distort economic reasoning.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic- and I don't agree with a word of it, either!
Comment: I read this book in one sitting, and let me say it is a great book.
It is odd so few books are written on such a basic philosophical question as equality, and reading mister Sen is akin to drinking a cold glass of water for a man in a desert of political philosophy.
The prose is somewhat weak, the stye is stilted, and that oddly only seems to add to mister Sens' achievement: I never get the feeling that when I turn the next page I will be bored or watch him say something unnecessarily pedantic. The whole book is carried solely by the interesting subject at hand and mister Sens endlessly excellent commentary on it.
That having been said, I agree with none of it. I do not value equality in any way, and my politics are thoroughly aristocratic and Old Right. So perhaps the possible reader should take that into account: I have nothing but praise for mister Sens books, and this book in particular is an excellent dive. Perhaps praise from a trenchant enemy is worth more than praise from the ideologically like minded.
I will be reading it and making notes and attacks on it for a year to come, at the very least. No matter how you view equality, I advocate mister Sen without reservation. This is excellent. Please buy it.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent piece
Comment: Amartya Sen really questions the very foundations that determine of what is equality and development. It is indeed a marvellous piece of work.
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Title: Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen ISBN: 0385720270 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: On Economic Inequality by Amartya Sen, James E. Foster ISBN: 0198281935 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen ISBN: 0631164014 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz ISBN: 0393324397 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Commodities and Capabilities by Amartya Sen ISBN: 0195650387 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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