The Ethics and Economics of the Capability Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book inquires into the Capability Approach, a value theory of freedom, which crystalizes the interests of Marx, Welfare Economics, Social Choice, and Ethics. The capability approach has attracted many people as a promising interdisciplinary approach to human well-being and social worlds, finely overarching ethical and economic concerns. It has well challenged essential characteristics of welfare economics, which focuses on the criterion of efficiency with the concept of utility, by explicitly incorporating normative criteria such as agency, well-being and real freedom into positive analysis. However, it has a bit operational and methodological difficulties such that how to estimate an individual capability set which includes potential multi-dimensional functioning vectors. This book reminds the reader of what traditional economics has left behind, by examining historical backgrounds, scrutinizing philosophical foundations and providing an operational formulation of the capability approach: indispensable for understanding what the capability approach is about and what it can achieve.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Hitotsubashi University IER Economic Research Series, 46
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Reiko Gotoh
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-981-15-5139-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	981-15-5139-1
Barcode:	9789811551390

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