Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Deneulin, Séverine (Editor), Nebel, Mathias (Editor), Sagovsky, Nicholas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 19
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Social sciences.; Political Philosophy.; Social Sciences, general.

The "capability approach" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the consumption of commodities but on the f...