Capabilities and Social Justice
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Author_John M. Alexander
Bad Option Luck
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Basic Capabilities
Basic Income Proposal
Best Life
Book III
Brute Luck
capability
Capability Approach
Capability Shortfalls
Capability Theorists
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Consequential Reasoning
Difference Principle
distributive justice
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Free State
freedom and public reasoning
goods
Human Functionings
individual liberty
Luck Egalitarians
Neo-roman Theorists
normative economics
Option Luck
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People's Basic Capabilities
People’s Basic Capabilities
political theory
Positive Freedom
poverty measurement
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Primary Goods
Public Reasoning
Rawls's Theory
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Rawls’s Theory
Sen 1982b
Sen 1999c
Sen 2002a
shortfalls
social ethics
theory
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Van Parijs
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- ISBN 9781138257306
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The capability approach to social justice construes a person's well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms people value. John Alexander engages with the rapidly growing body of literature on the capability approach in economics, inequality, poverty measurement and development studies. Critically assessing Sen and Nussbaum's work in normative economics, social ethics and political philosophy, Alexander develops a unified vision of the capability approach embodying the ideal of creating the greatest possible condition for the realization of basic capabilities for all. He then assesses this vision as a political theory arguing that capabilities are necessary but not sufficient for overcoming conditions of domination. The book calls for a more intimate relationship between individual liberty and the freedom of the political community as a whole.
Dr John M. Alexander is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economics and Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium. He also teaches Philosophy and Business Ethics at Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Loyola College (University of Madras), Chennai, India.
