Ο Peter Townsend γράφει στην εισαγωγή της πραγματείας του ‘A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty - A Rejoinder to Professor Amartya Sen’ (Oxford Economic Papers 37 (1985), 659-668):

IN his paper “Poor, relatively Speaking” (Oxford Economic Papers, 1983, pp. 153-169) Professor Amartya Sen takes issue with part of my work on poverty. Unfortunately he does not correctly represent my approach to the concept and, as a consequence, fails to provide fair criticisms of the treatment of “relative deprivation” by myself and others as a quite distinct example of the relativist views of poverty which he argues comprehensively against in the first part of the paper. He gives very confused grounds for retaining an “absolute” core to the meaning of poverty and makes an insufficient case for treating “capability” as a key concept in the analysis of trends in living standards. I will discuss these matters in turn. My discussion follows the structure of Professor Sen’s paper1. Some readers may prefer to skim through the first section to reach the general issues considered in the second and third sections of this rejoinder.

Έχουμε relative > relativist, σχετικός > σχετικιστικός, σχετικοκρατικός
absolute > absolutist, απόλυτος > απολυτοκρατικός