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Against injustice : the new economics of Amartya Sen /

Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen's work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent inju...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gotō, Reiko, Dumouchel, Paul, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel
  • Economics, law, and ethics / Amartya Sen
  • Neorepublicanism and Sen's economic, legal, and ethical desiderata / Philip Pettit
  • The Prajâpati test : response to Amartya Sen / Marcel Hénaff
  • The power of a democratic public / Philip Pettit
  • The challenge of gender justice / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Gift, market, and social justice / Marcel Hénaff
  • Justice and public reciprocity / Reiko Gotoh
  • Reasoning with preferences? / John Broome
  • Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics : a re-examination / Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu
  • On applying synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being : health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom / Andrea Brandolini
  • Assessing children's capabilities : operationalizing metrics for evaluating music programs with poor children in Brazilian primary schools / Flavio Comim
  • The search for socially sustainable development : conceptual and methodological issues / Jean-Luc Dubois
  • Response / Amartya Sen.