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A Crítica de Amartya Sen à Concepção Rawlsiana de Justiça

Sequência: Estudos Juridicos e Politicos, 2016
O presente artigo tem como intuito abordar o tema da justiça na obra do filósofo John Rawls e do economista Amartya Sen. O objetivo é apresentar, em um primeiro momento, a noção de justiça de Amartya construída sob uma ótica prática, ou seja, vinculada ...
Flávio Pansieri
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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Amartya Sen

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
Amartya Sen (b.1933) has been a beacon of common sense in the interdisciplinary terrain he occupies. His work on entitlements and capability stress human agency rather more than constraint, and they carry ‘some sense of worth and of real people's lives’ (Gasper, 2000: 996).
Batterbury, Simon, Fernando, Jude L.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth

Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya, Vincent Geloso, Aleksander Psurek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amartya Sen o prawach człowieka [Sen on human rights] [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2014
The article discusses the idea of ‘human rights’ and the Amartya Sen’s reflections on that topic. By assumption, Sen does not present a catalogue of human rights, yet he claims that the language of human rights can be used to talk about the so-called ...
Katarzyna Guczalska
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Justice and Democracy in Amartya Sen

Politikon, 2013
The present paper aims at delivering a critical view of the links between justice and democracy as set by Amartya Sen’s paramount work on these themes, “The Idea of Justice”, by considering the constitutional and political experience of India. A central
Antonio Puggioni
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte, Helmi Moret, Pim de Zwart   +2 more
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Mothers' strategies to reconcile roles and responsibilities during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Family Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Theoretically guided by the capability approach, this study examines how mothers reconciled work and care responsibilities throughout the pandemic. Background The COVID‐19 pandemic placed heavy demands on mothers and limited their agency freedom.
Vera Dafert, Ulrike Zartler
wiley   +1 more source