Addressing Inequality: A Theoretical Inquiry into Divergent Approaches

Abstract

Inequality and Justice are two important political values that have grabbed the attention of the political scientists. They have tried to demonstrate that the question of inequality and justice can be addressed through applying certain methods. For example, commodities approach, resource based approach, basic needs approach etc all make an attempt to demonstrate that inequality can be resolved. However, the paper argues that there are problems in these approaches and Sen’s argument on these approaches appear to be justified. The paper makes an modest attempt to look into these issues