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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha Craven Nussbaum; Amartya Sen; World Institute for Development Economics Research. |
| ISBN: | 0198283954 9780198283959 0198287976 9780198287971 |
| OCLC Number: | 24871117 |
| Notes: | "A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University." Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the World Institute for Development Economics Research. |
| Description: | xi, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Equality of what? : on welfare, goods, and capabilities / G.A. Cohen -- Capability and well-being / Amartya Sen. Commentators on Cohen and Sen, Christine M. Korsgaard and Wulf Gaertner -- Descriptions of inequality : the Swedish approach to welfare research / Robert Erikson. Commentator, Bengt-Christer Ysander -- Having, loving, being : an alternative to the Swedish model of welfare research / Erik Allardt -- Quality of life measures in health care and medical ethics / Dan Brock. Commentator, James Griffin -- Objectivity and the science-ethics distinction / Hilary Putnam, Commentator, Lorenz Krüger -- Objectivity and social meaning / Michael Walzer. Commentator, Ruth Anna Putnam -- Value, desire, and quality of life / Thomas Scanlon. Commentator, Sissela Bok -- Explanation and practical reason / Charles Taylor. Commentator, Martha Nussbaum. Non-relative virtues : an Aristotelian approach / Martha Nussbaum. Commentator, Susan Hurley -- Women and the quality of life : two norms or one? / Julia Annas. Commentator, Margarita W. Valdés -- Justice, gender, and international boundaries / Onora O'Neill. Commentator, Martha Nussbaum -- Distributing health : the allocation of resources by an international agency / John E. Roemer. Commentator, Paul Seabright -- The relativity of the welfare concept / B.M.S. van Praag. Commentator, Siddiq Osmani -- Pluralism and the standard of living / Paul Seabright. Commentator, Derek Parfit -- Life-style and the standard of living / Christopher Bliss. Commentator, Amartya Sen. |
| Series Title: | Studies in development economics. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. |
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