If there is a reason to grumble. that is attached, in much of economics, to inequality in a very narrow domain, viz., income inequality: This narrowness has the effect of contributing to the neglect of other ways of seeing inequality and equity, which has far-reaching bearing on the making of economic policy. Policy debates have indeed been distorted by over- come poverty and income inequa emphasis on glect of to the ne deprivations that relate to other variables, such as unemployment, ii and social exclusion. Unfortunately, the health, lack of education identification of economic inequality with income inequality is fairly common in economics, and the two are often seen as effectively syn someone that you are working on economic onymous. If you te inequality, it is quite standardly assumed that you are studying income distribution