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  title info:
    title: Wellbeing, freedom and social justice
    sub title: the capability approach re-examined
  name:
    name part: Robeyns, Ingrid
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: 114 edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (268 pages)
  abstract: How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. This book is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. The author offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction : 1.1 Why the capability approach? -- 1.2 The worries of the sceptics -- 1.3 A yardstick for the evaluation of prosperity and progress -- 1.4 Scope and development of the capability approach -- 1.5 A guide for the reader. 2 Core ideas and the framework : 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A preliminary definition of the capability approach -- 2.3 The capability approach versus capability theories -- 2.4 The many modes of capability analysis -- 2.5 The modular view of the capability approach -- 2.6 The A-module: the non-optional core of all capability theories -- 2.6.1 A1: Functionings and capabilities -- 2.6.2 A2: Functionings and capabilities are value-neutral categories -- 2.6.3 A3: Conversion factors -- 2.6.4 A4: The means-ends distinction -- 2.6.5 A5: Functionings and capabilities as the evaluative space -- 2.6.6 A6: Other dimensions of ultimate value -- 2.6.7 A7: Value pluralism -- 2.6.8 A8: The principle of each person as an end -- 2.7 The B-modules: non-optional modules with optional content -- 2.7.1 B1: The purpose of the capability theory -- 2.7.2 B2: The selection of dimensions -- 2.7.3 B3: Human diversity -- 2.7.4 B4: Agency -- 2.7.5 B5: Structural constraints -- 2.7.6 B6: The choice between functionings, capabilities, or both -- 2.7.7 B7: Meta-theoretical commitments -- 2.8 The C-modules: contingent modules -- 2.8.1 C1: Additional ontological and explanatory theories -- 2.8.2 C2: Weighing dimensions -- 2.8.3 C3: Methods for empirical analysis -- 2.8.4 C4: Additional normative principles and concerns -- 2.9 The modular view of the capability account: a summary -- 2.10 Hybrid theories -- 2.11 The relevance and implications of the modular view -- 2.12 A visualisation of the core conceptual elements -- 2.13 The narrow and broad uses of the capability approach -- 2.14 Conclusion. 3 Clarifications : 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Refining the notions of 'capability' and 'functioning' -- 3.2.1 Capability as an opportunity versus capability as an …
  note: Ingrid Robeyns.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
  subject:
    topic: Well-being
  subject:
    topic: Social justice
  subject:
    topic: Basic needs
  classification: HD75 .R635 2017
  classification: 306.3
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    title info:
      title: Wellbeing, freedom and social justice : the capability approach re-examined
    name:
      name part: Robeyns, Ingrid.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Open Book Publishers, c2017
      edition: 114 edition.
    physical description:
      extent: 268 pages
    identifier: (DLC) 2017491526
  identifier: 9781783744220
  identifier: 9781783744237 (e-book)
  identifier: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/daystar-ebooks/detail.action
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    record creation date: 200114
    record change date: 20250214125603.0
    record identifier: EBC5216067
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng