BOOK REVIEW 65 world-wide economic delusion and in doing so I direct myself especially to those liberal reformists, even Marxists who might, under sustained orthodox attack, by now have doubts as to the rigour and intellectual force of their own arguments, might even be on the verge of buying the line that, whereas they purvey 'ideology', it is 'science' that is the opposition's business. Read this book—and seek reassurance—for you will see then just on what flimsy and pretentious foundations at least one purported attack is based. GOPALAKRISHNA KUMAR Balliol College, Oxford. 1 P T Bauer, Dissent, and Development9 Weidenneld and Nicolson, London, 1971. 2 Amartya Sen, "Just Deserts", NewY or k Review of Books, March 4, 1982. 3 Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, Blackwell, Oxford, 1974. 4 See, for instance, Bernard Williams, "The Minimal State", Times Literary Supple, went, January 17, 1975. (Reprinted inj Paul (ed), Reading Nozick, 1982. 5 See the excellent text, A B Atkinson, The Economics of Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1975, and the more recent Report of the Standing Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth 1975-1979 (Diamond Commission Report), Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London. The influence of schooling in maintaining patterns of inequality in America is demonstrated in S Bowles and H Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America Basic Books, New York, 1976. 6 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971, and Rawls, "Social Unity and Primary Goods"^ in A Sen and B Williams (ed). Utilitarianism and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 1982. 7 Ronald Dworkin, "To Each His Own", New York Review of Books, April 14, 1983, p6. 8 Amartya Sen, "Equality of what?", in Turner Lectures on Human Values, Vol I Cambridge University Press, 1980. 9 This is clearly an even greater imperative in poorer countries for policies of redistribution to work, and it is tiansfers of consumer expenditure from the rich to the poor that are likely to be of greater moment here, together with of course substantial changes in -the piocess of income generation in the economy. For a recent iluminating discussion, see K Sundaram and S D Tendulkar, "Poverty Reduction^ and Redistribution in Sixth Plan", Economic and Political Weekly^ September 17, 1983 and "Poverty in the Mid-Term Appraisal", Ibid^ September 24, 1983. 10 See, for example, J H Goldthorpe, et al. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain, Clarendon Press, Oxfoid, 1980; and J H Westergaard, and H Resle^-Class and Capitalist Society, Heincmann, 1975. 11 Teresa Hayter, Aid as Imperialism, Panguin, Harmondsworth, 1971. 12 Keith Gnffin, International Inequality and National Poverty, Macmillon, 1978. 13 The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol 2 c 1757-c 1970, Cambridge L^iversity Press, Cambridge, 1983, and the review by D K Fieldhouse, " rhe Imperial pact", Times Literary Supplement, June 10, 1983. 14 I M D Little, Review of P T Bauer, Indian Economy and Development, Economic Journal, 1961.