`Rarely has so small a volume offered so comprehensive an overview of its subject, constituting a readable and intelligent evaluation of the literature of economic inequality.' Economica `Professor Sen is well known for his contributions to the higher reaches of welfare economics. The series of four lectures which comprise this book display his usual clarity and rigour of expression.' Economist `The Annexe provides a superbly coherent and lucid discussion of the major issues in the literature on economic inequality since the publication of Sen's classic On Economic Inequality in 1973. The significance and scope of the contributions reviewed is assessed with typical insight and clarity.' Sudhir Anand, St. Catherine's College, Oxford