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 variable which 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 practical import.
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Amartya Sen is at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Much of economics is concerned with the relation between commodities and people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
market purchase data, functioning vectors, commodity vectors, interpersonal variations, valuation function, interpersonal comparisons, capability set Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Much of economics is concerned with the relation between commodities and people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
market purchase data, functioning vectors, commodity vectors, interpersonal variations, valuation function, interpersonal comparisons, capability set Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sri Lanka, Male Female, Van Praag, World Development Report, Adam Smith, West Bengal New!
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- Letters from the Antipodes by Michel Butor in Back Matter
- Sri Lanka (Beans) by Gay Bennett in Back Matter
- Utilitarianism and Beyond by Amartya Sen in Back Matter
- The Social Studies (National Society for the Study of Education Yearbooks) (Pt. 2) by Howard Mehlinger in Back Matter
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare by A.K. Sen in Front Matter
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- Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities (Wider Studies in Development Economics) by Martha Nussbaum on 5 pages
- Armut und Reichtum an Verwirklichungschancen: Amartya Sens Capability-Konzept als Grundlage der Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung (Forschung Gesellschaft) (German Edition) by Jürgen Volkert on 5 pages
- Freedom in Economics: New Perspectives in Normative Analysis (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) by Marc Fleurbaey on 4 pages
- Europe and the Politics of Capabilities by Robert Salais on 4 pages
- Transforming Unjust Structures: The Capability Approach (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by Severine Deneulin on 4 pages
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