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Amartya Sen's capability approach : theoretical insights and empirical applications
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Amartya Sen's capability approach : theoretical insights and empirical applications

Author: Wiebke Kuklys
Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005.
Series: Studies in choice and welfare.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual's welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms what she can actually do or be, her capabilities."--Jacket.
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Kuklys, Wiebke.
Amartya Sen's capability approach.
Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005
(DLC) 2005927144
(OCoLC)61219183
Named Person: Amartya Sen
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Wiebke Kuklys
ISBN: 3540261982 9783540261988 3540280839 9783540280835
OCLC Number: 62706071
Notes: Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, Cambridge University.
Description: 1 online resource (xv, 116 p.)
Contents: Introduction; Sen's Capability Approach to Welfare Economics; The Measurement of Functionings Achievement: Structural Equation Models as an Alternative; Functionings-Based vs. Income-Based Inequality Measures: Informational Content and Robustness; A Monetary Approach to Capability Measurement of the Disabled in the UK.
Series Title: Studies in choice and welfare.
Responsibility: Wiebke Kuklys.
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