" Notions such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice are integral to evaluating social
progress and developing policies. One increasingly influential way to think about these …

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda.
How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or …

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 …

IN the last decade, the capability approach has become increasingly prominent in academia
and policy making. The core claim of the capability approach is that assessments of the well …

The capability approach developed by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has become an
important new paradigm in thinking about development. However, despite its theoretical and …

The focal question of the Conference that gave rise to this volume was how Amartya Sen's
capability approach, which appears to have captured the interest of many, could be put to …

The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the
substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body …

abstract Sen and Nussbaum's capability approach has in the past twenty years become an
increasingly popular and influential approach to issues in global justice. Its main tenet is that …

In addressing operational challenges such as poverty or economic development, many
researchers and practitioners wish to build upon insights raised by Sen's capability …

Traditional economics identifies a person's well-being with the goods and services the
person consumes and the utility that the person gets from such consumption. This, in turn …