Elección social, desigualdad y virtud cívica

Abstract

The article presents the way in which Sen attachs the social choice theory to the reasoned search for justice, taking into account interpersonal comparisons such as different kinds of moral information. These types of information are the concept of agency linked to the republican idea of civic virtue. The goal is to lay out the argument according to which overcoming poverty and extreme inequality in Latin America, cannot be achieved if taken only as a matter of social engineering. The viability of this objective depends not only on the increasing – its depends on citizens’ disdain for inequality, but also to citizen’s political action and its impact on public policy.