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This article focuses on the philosophical aspects of the Capability Approach and its foundations in the work of Amartya Sen. It discusses the development and structure of Sen’s account, how it relates to other ethical approaches, and its main contributions and criticisms.
In this approach, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum combine a range of ideas that were previously excluded from (or inadequately formulated in) traditional approaches to welfare economics. The core focus of the capability approach is improving access to the tools people use to live a fulfilling life.
Section 2 provides a brief description of the key concepts of Sen's capability approach. Section 3 outlines the challenges that any attempt to operationalize the capability approach must face and present Sen's responses to these challenges.
Over the last decade Amartya Sen™s Capability Approach (CA) has emerged as the leading alternative to standard economic frameworks for thinking about poverty, inequality and human development generally.
While an Anglo-American political philosopher will want to investigate the robustness of the use of the term ‘freedom’ by Amartya Sen, the applied social scientist will not bother but instead worry about how the capability approach can be applied to study poverty or inequality.
May 6, 2003 · Part I describes Sen’s capability approach and seeks to illuminate why Sen considers the notion of capability to be the most comprehensive framework within which human well-being can be conceptualised.
This chapter provides an overview of the conceptual and normative foundations of the capability approach and the role of agency within the approach. It puts aside the diverse ways in which the capability approach has been applied and implemented (Robeyns 2006). The chapter is divided into two parts.
Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK.
Amartya Sen's capability approach has generated remarkable interest in recent years. This volume brings together a selection of papers initially presented at an international conference on the capability approach (CA) held at St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 2001.
This chapter outlines key features of Sen’s capability approach; in particular, its multidimensionality and its focus on what people can do and be in their lives.
