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The capability approach (also referred to as the capabilities approach) is a normative approach to human welfare that concentrates on the actual capability of persons to achieve lives they value rather than solely having a right or freedom to do so. [1] It was conceived in the 1980s as an alternative approach to welfare economics. [2]
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. The author argues that inequality is a central notion to every social theory that has stood on time. For only if this basic feature is ...
A 56-minute documentary named Amartya Sen: A Life Re-examined directed by Suman Ghosh details his life and work. [62] [63] A documentary about Amartya Sen, titled The Argumentative Indian (the title of one of Sen's own books [64]), was released in 2017. [65] A 2001 portrait of Sen by Annabel Cullen is in Trinity College's collection. [66]
Creating Capabilities is a book, first published by Martha Nussbaum in 2011, which outlines a unique theory regarding the Capability approach or the Human development approach. Nussbaum draws on theories of other notable advocates of the Capability approach like Amartya Sen, but makes specific distinctions.
Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. [1] Development as Freedom was published one year later and argues that development entails a set of linked freedoms: political freedoms and transparency in relations between people; freedom of opportunity, including freedom to access credit; and
Aristotle noted that "Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful for something else", and Adam Smith and Karl Marx were concerned with human capabilities. The theory grew in importance in the 1980s with the work of Amartya Sen and his Human Capabilities perspective, which played a role in his receiving the 1998 ...
Her doctoral thesis, which demonstrated how the work of Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen could be coherently and practically put to use in poverty reduction activities, [8] was later published as a monograph with the title Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction (2002). [9]
Equality of autonomy is a political philosophy concept of Amartya Sen that argues "that the ability and means to choose our life course should be spread as equally as possible across society"—i.e., an equal chance at autonomy or empowerment. [1]