Repensando o desenvolvimento e a desigualdade: um diálogo entre as abordagens propostas por Thomas Piketty e Amartya Sen

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to conduct a comparative analysis of the economic categories development and inequality, presented in the book The Capital in the 21st century, by Thomas Piketty, with the perspective defended by Amartya Sen, using as a basis his work entitled Development as freedom. To reach the proposed objective, a bibliographic research was conducted on specialized sites and in the System libraries platform of the Federal University of Alagoas (Sibi/Ufal). As conclusions, we pointed out some convergences and divergences in the way these two authors of different economic schools and origins work the categories development and inequality, in these two fundamental works of economic literature.