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Jul 11, 2024 · As I show in this chapter, his focus on how best to overcome the deprivations associated with various kinds of inequalities—class, gender, group, and so on—lead him ultimately to proposing an alternative framework and metric for understanding inequality and equality: capability.
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Sep 14, 1995 · Sen argues that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than either their resources or their welfare. He also looks at some types of inequalities that have not yet been studied as systematically as inequalities of class and wealth have been.
This essay critically examines economist and philosopher Amartya Sen's writings as a potential resource in religious ethicists' efforts to analyze crimination against girls and women and to address their well-being agency.
The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum “all people are created equal” serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background.
Inequality Reexamined is a 1992 book by the economist Amartya Sen. In the book Sen evaluates the different perspectives of the general notion of inequality, focusing mainly on his well-known capability approach.
Professor Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous work, On Economic Inequality, and provides new analyses and insights in this crucial area. The book brings together and develops some...
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Sen's fifth chapter of-fers a subtle and penetrating analysis of the relationships between justice and capabilities. He concludes that we need to examine differences between persons in the ability to transform primary goods into capabilities to pur-sue their ends and objectives. Sen notes that "an early argument for concentration on the basic value
