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Liberty as Control: An Appraisal
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This article is published in Midwest Studies in Philosophy.The article was published on 1982-09-01. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Contemporary philosophy & Analytic philosophy.read more
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Why the Capability Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the comprehensive reach and foundation of the human development and capability approach has a value independent from and additional to their practical outworkings, and yet also that operational specifications are both possible and vital to the further development of the approach.
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Wellbeing in developing countries : from theory to research
Ian Gough,J. Allister McGregor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of human needs and wellbeing in international development, and propose a self-determination theory perspective on the promotion of wellness across development and cultures.
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Welfare, preference and freedom
TL;DR: The authors argued that preference and freedom are very deeply interrelated, and that an affirmation of the intrinsic importance of freedom must inter alia assign fundamental importance to preference, which goes against some common presumptions about assesing freedom, and also against some axioms that have been proposed in the literature on measuring freedom.
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Entitlement relations and ‘unruly’ social practices: A comment on the work of Amartya Sen
TL;DR: In this article, the conceptual basis and analytical deployment of Sen's analysis in ethics and economics, focusing on the rules of entitlement, is examined, in particular on the literature on the moral economy of provisioning.
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Welfare, Freedom and Social Choice: a Reply
TL;DR: The authors have published a collection of essays on social choice theory and welfare economics with the purpose of answering a "reply" to the essays included in this special number of essays. But it is not easy to respond adequately to such a rich collection of challenging ideas and contributions, nor to hide the fact that I am delighted and feel tremendously honoured.