Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Deneulin, Séverine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Nebel, Mathias (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sagovsky, Nicholas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 19
• Θέματα: 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...

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• “Capable Individuals” and Just Institutions: Sen and Rawls
• Justice for Women: Martha Nussbaum and Catholic Social Teaching
• Transforming Unjust Structures: Five Case Studies
• Narrative Capability: Telling Stories in the Search for Justice
• Promoting Capability for Work: The Role of Local Actors
• Enhancing Students' Capabilities?: UK Higher Education and the Widening Participation Agenda
• Enter the Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity and the Capability of Human Flourishing
• “Patent Injustice”: Applying Sen's Capability Approach to Biotechnologies.