Development and Inequality: between the old and the new paradigms

Authors

  • Julio Gamero Requena National University of Engineering, Lima Peru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21754/iecos.v2i0.1120

Keywords:

Development, Inequality, Paradigms

Abstract

Within the framework of an exposition on the successive conceptions of development, in relation to the policies applied in Latin America, the article presents the most outstanding points of John Rawls's theory of distributive justice, and Amartya Sen's philosophy on development. understood as an expansion of freedoms.

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Published

2006-07-01

How to Cite

Gamero Requena, J. (2006). Development and Inequality: between the old and the new paradigms. Revista IECOS, 2(1), 3–9. https://doi.org/10.21754/iecos.v2i0.1120

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Research Articles