Amartya Sen
Commodities and Capabilities
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Commodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, i.e. what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard emphasis on opulence or on utility. In fact, a person's motivation behind choice is treated here as a parametric variablewhich may or may not coincide with the pursuit of self-interest. Given the large number of practical problems arising from the roles and limitations of different concepts of interest and the…
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Commodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, i.e. what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard emphasis on opulence or on utility. In fact, a person's motivation behind choice is treated here as a parametric variablewhich may or may not coincide with the pursuit of self-interest. Given the large number of practical problems arising from the roles and limitations of different concepts of interest and the judgement of advantage and well-being, this scholarly investigation is both of theoretical interest and practicalimport.
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-565038-9
- EAN: 9780195650389
- Produktnummer: 22665216
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 102 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.1 cm x D0.7 cm 101 g
- Abbildungen: tables
- Gewicht: 101
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