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Wiebke Kuklys - Amartya Sen's Capability Approach - 9783540261988 - V9783540261988
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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach

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Description for Amartya Sen's Capability Approach Hardback. 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. This book argues that an individual's welfare should not be measured in terms of income, but in terms of capabilities. Series: Studies in Choice and Welfare. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 371.

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. In Chapters 1 and 2, Kuklys describes the capability approach from a standard welfare economic point of view and provides a comprehensive literature review of the empirical applications in this area of research. In the remaining chapters, novel econometric techniques are employed to operationalise ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Choice and Welfare
Number of Pages
116
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540261988
SKU
V9783540261988
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