ABSTRACT
Robert Francis Kennedy had already discovered the problem of "social exclusion," of the separation of the individual from the life of the community, as well as how individuals had become divorced from the decision-making structures and processes that were supposed to be the hallmark of American democracy. Amartya Sen takes up the social-exclusion paradigm mainly because of its focus on the multi-dimensionality of deprivation and its emphasis on relational processes rather than the individual". Both Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King already employed this concept in the 1960s as they addressed national and international inequalities and the effects of these realities upon individuals, classes, communities, nations, and international relations as whole. Social responsibility would be regarded as inefficient in a global free market and demands for a living wage would be a targeted source of inefficiency and purged wherever possible".
