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Measuring justice : primary goods and capabilities /
"This book brings together a team of leading theorists to address the question 'What is the right measure of justice?' Some contributors, following Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, argue that we should focus on capabilities, or what people are able to do and to be. Others, following J...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book brings together a team of leading theorists to address the question 'What is the right measure of justice?' Some contributors, following Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, argue that we should focus on capabilities, or what people are able to do and to be. Others, following John Rawls, argue for focussing on social primary goods, the goods which society produces and which people can use. Still others see both views as incomplete and complementary to one another. Their essays evaluate the two approaches in the light of particular issues of social justice - education, health policy, disability, children, gender justice - and the volume concludes with an essay by Amartya Sen, who originated the capabilities approach"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511677656 0511677650 9780521884518 0521884519 9780521711470 0521711479 9780511810916 0511810911 1107211417 9781107211414 1282539000 9781282539006 9786612539008 6612539003 0511678908 9780511678905 0511682131 9780511682131 0511684118 9780511684111 0511680155 9780511680151 |