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Development as Capability Expansion
Amartya Sen,Sakiko Fukuda-Parr +1 more
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In this article, the capability approach: conceptual roots, Commodities, functionings and capability, and Utilitarian calculus versus objective deprivation are discussed. But the capability is not defined as a set of goods and services.Abstract:
Page Introduction ........................................................................................................................41 The capability approach: conceptual roots .........................................................................43 Commodities, functionings and capability..........................................................................43 Utilitarian calculus versus objective deprivation ................................................................44 Ambiguities, precision and relevance .................................................................................45 Quality of life, Basic needs and capability .........................................................................46 Rawls, primary goods and freedoms...................................................................................47 Freedom, capability and data limitations ............................................................................48 Inequality, class and gender................................................................................................51 Conclusion ..........................................................................................................................54read more
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Capability and Well-Being
TL;DR: Amartya Sen as discussed by the authors proposes that alternatives be appraised by looking to the capabilities they provide for individuals rather than only by individual utilities, incomes, or resources (as in commonly used theories).
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Collective Choice and Social Welfare
TL;DR: The second edition of Collective Choice and Social Welfare as discussed by the authors was published in 1970 and has been widely used in the social choice literature since its early 1970s, and is considered a classic work in social choice.
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Well-Being, Agency and Freedom the Dewey Lectures 1984 *
TL;DR: In this paper, an "informational" approach to moral analysis focusing on the admissibility and use of different types of information in moral valuation has been proposed to bring out the content, scope, and limitations of different moral principles.
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Gender and cooperative conflicts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss well-being, agency, and cooperative conflicts in the context of household economics, bargaining models, and information bases in Finnish households, and the relationship between gender and cooperation.
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Measuring the Condition of the World's Poor: The Physical Quality of Life Index
TL;DR: The PQLI as mentioned in this paper is a new social indicator of development progress, which is a composite of life expectancy, infant mortality, and literacy, and has the advantage of being relevant to comparisons within, as well as between, countries.