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Hindistanlı bir iktisatçı olan Amartya Sen'in eserleri değişik zamanlara ve mekanlara nüfûzu açısından dikkate değerdir. İktisadî kalkınma hakkındaki yazılarında Amartya Sen, sık sık imparator Ashoka ve Ekber Şah gibi Hindistan ...
Fatih Bayram
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Inequality of Opportunity in a Multiperiod Framework
ABSTRACT This paper offers a simple model to evaluate and measure inequality of opportunity in a multiperiod framework, in which both circumstances and effort may change over time. We adopt a norm‐based approach and an axiomatic methodology: we first characterise two alternative definitions of a ‘fair distribution’, associated respectively with the ex ...
Domenico Moramarco +2 more
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Abstract Social investment is one of the dominant approaches to welfare reform worldwide. Highlighting the positive contribution of social policy to the economy, social investment constitutes a valuable alternative to austerity. In this research note, we argue that—despite its merits—social investment is problematic from an ecological and global ...
Francesco Laruffa +2 more
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Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher.
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Amartya Sen, Nobel de Economía 1998 Hambrunas, capacidades y derechos
La Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias decidió entregar el Premio Nobel de Ciencias Económicas al Profesor AMARTYA SEN por sus contribuciones a la investigación del bienestar económico. Amartya Sen nació en 1933en la India. En 1959 realizó su doctorado en la
Camilo Herrera Mora
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ABSTRACT Cash transfers have become an increasingly important social protection tool in development and humanitarian contexts. In developing countries, cash transfers can be used to build economic resilience. This study examines the effects of unconditional cash transfers on asset accumulation among low‐income households in rural Northern Uganda. Using
Simon Peter Nsereko +2 more
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Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
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ABSTRACT International education practices and trends, particularly student mobility, remain largely shaped by Global North perspectives. Although scholars have repeatedly called for the dismantling of Western dominance and supremacy in international education, there is still limited understanding of how this can be achieved and what the decolonising ...
Ly Thi Tran, Trang Thuy Le
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The family is a remarkable institution. And a complex one. Indeed, so complex that much of economic theory proceeds as if no such thing exists. In the standard theory of prices and equilibrium (the most elegant version of which is to be found in the ...
Amartya Sen
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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