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The Philosophers' Magazine, 2010
Research by many feminist economists bears a set of common methodological features, which Marilyn Power has identified as the social provisioning approach (SPA). This chapter argues that the synergy and overlap between the SPA and the capability approach (CA) is not only in the shared conceptualization of well-being.
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Research by many feminist economists bears a set of common methodological features, which Marilyn Power has identified as the social provisioning approach (SPA). This chapter argues that the synergy and overlap between the SPA and the capability approach (CA) is not only in the shared conceptualization of well-being.
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The Capability Approach and Research on Children: Capability Approach and Children’s Issues
2010The objective of this chapter is to show that the Capability Approach can serve as an appropriate conceptual framework and a normative tool to analyse children’s well-being and other relevant children’s issues. To meet this objective, the second section reviews the literature on children and the Capability Approach with a special focus on empirical ...
BIGGERI, MARIO, J. Ballet, F. Comim
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QALYs and the capability approach
Health Economics, 2005AbstractThis explores the applicability of Sen's capability approach to the economic evaluation of health care programmes. An individual's ‘capability set’ describes his freedom to choose valuable activities and states of being (‘functionings’). Direct estimation and valuation of capability sets is not feasible at present.
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The capability approach is a theoretical framework that entails two normative claims: first, the claim that the freedom to achieve well-being is of primary moral importance and, second, that well-being should be understood in terms of people’s capabilities and functionings.
Robeyns, Ingrid, Byskov, Morten Fiebiger
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Robeyns, Ingrid, Byskov, Morten Fiebiger
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2016
In Chap. 2 I anticipated a use of “freedoms” in the sense of freedoms that may or may not underlie human rights; a language that is particularly connected with the capability approach. The purpose of this chapter is to consider the core ideas of the capability approach, looking forward in order to connect it to the outcomes obtained up to now and to ...
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In Chap. 2 I anticipated a use of “freedoms” in the sense of freedoms that may or may not underlie human rights; a language that is particularly connected with the capability approach. The purpose of this chapter is to consider the core ideas of the capability approach, looking forward in order to connect it to the outcomes obtained up to now and to ...
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Capabilities and Incapabilities of the Capabilities Approach to Health Justice
Bioethics, 2015ABSTRACTThis first part of this article critiques Sridhar Venkatapuram's conception of health as a capability. It argues that Venkatapuram relies on the problematic concept of dignity, implies that those who are unhealthy lack lives worthy of dignity (which seems politically incorrect), sets a low bar for health, appeals to metaphysically problematic ...
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Sen's capability approach and Nussbaum's capabilities ethic
Journal of International Development, 1997The paper assesses Sen's more abstract version of capabilities theory, Nussbaum's more substantive Aristotelian version and attempts to apply such conceptions to women's lives. Sen's capability approach is a helpful intervention in the discourses of mainstream Western welfare economics and moral philosophy.
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