The article discusses, on the one hand, Amartya Sen's proposed relations between ethics and Economics and, on the other hand, ethics and rationality. It also introduces his broad view on inequality and poverty issues. This is done with a view to underlining his positive outlook on interdisciplinary cooperation; his mitigated rationalism both in Economics and normative theory; and also the leading role performed by inequality and poverty themes in his work as well as the peculiar interconnected way in which they are worked out therein.
Socioeconomic inequalities; Rationality; Ethics and the Economics; Normative theory; Amartya Sen