Sens's Capability Approach to Welfare Economics

We describe Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to welfare evaluation in the language of standard welfare economics, and assess to what extent it provides a genuine alternative for individual welfare measurement and policy evaluation. We review the nascent empirical literature on the capability approach and assess whether it makes a genuine difference with standard welfare evaluation.

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Year of publication:	2004-01
Authors:	Kuklys, Wiebke ; Robeyns, Ingrid
Institutions:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Subject:	capability approach \| welfare economics \| welfare measurement \| welfarism

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Papers on Strategic Interaction.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	23 pages
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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