SIGNED NOBELIST. Inequality Reexamined

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First printing.

1992 SCARCE SIGNED MONOGRAPH BY NOBEL LAUREATE AMARTYA SEN, WHO ASKS WHAT CONSTITUTES INEQUALITY?

14x21.5 cm hardcover, black cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed front free endpaper, "To Frank/ with regards & best wishes,/ Amartya." i-xiv, 207 pp, fine in fine dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. FROM DUST JACKET FLAP: "Considering the vast diversity of our individual characteristics and circumstances, 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, physical abilities, and proneness to illness, as well as in material advantages and social background. Equality in one sphere tends, therefore, to be linked to inequality in other spheres. We are forced to select, and Sen argues for concentrating on higher and more basic values: individual capabilities and freedom to achieve objectives."

AMARTYA SEN (born 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries. He is currently a Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He formerly served as Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998. In 2006, Time magazine listed him under "60 years of Asian Heroes" and in 2010 included him in their "100 most influential persons in the world". New Statesman listed him in their 2010 edition of 'World's 50 Most Influential People Who Matter'.