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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights
No full textThis paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human rights and economics is an important and innovative contribution that has methodological as well as substantive importance and that provides a prototype and stimuli for future research. It also establishes that the idea of fundamental freedoms and human rights is itself an important gateway into understanding the nature, scope and significance of Sen's research. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of the challenges to be addressed in taking Sen's contributions in the field of human rights forward.Amartya Sen, human rights, poverty, freedom, obligation, capability approach, meta-rights, entitlements, opportunity freedom, liberty-rights
Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development
No full textdevelopment, inequality, gender, well-being, agency, capability, distribution, Sen
Decentralising Bengaluru Urban -The Regional Planning way
No full textDecentralising Bengaluru Urban -The Regional Planning way
Author / Authors : Priyadarshini Sen
Page no.139 -148
Discipline : Applied Economics/ Management/ Commerce/Geography
Script/language : Roman/English
Category : Research paper
Keywords: Regional Planning, Metropolis, Social wellbeing, Settlement
John Rawls e Amartya Sen em busca da justiça
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2014.Abstract : The current discussion on justice is widely influenced by John Rawls?s thesis, developed in his books A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993) that renewed political philosophy. Among them are included the problem of justice, impartiality criterion, peoples motivations to justice and the object of justice, understood within a conception of justice that articulates moral and political values. Recently, those thesis were criticized by the economist Amartya Sen?s book The Idea of Justice (2009). It?s offered on it an approach to justice answering what it regards to be the genuine question of justice according to the peoples actual motivations, that is, the perception of injustices in world which can be removed. In order to answer his question, Sen rejects the necessity of a complete ordering of our values and beliefs about justice in a theoretical conception. Institutions as subjects of justice give way to an evaluation of justice focused on people?s life conditions and the impartiality criterion is understood in a ?open? way. This disagreement is accessed as a debate of thinkers answering different problems concerning different objects, pursuing a common goal, that is: to make justice compatible with peoples actual motivations in order to bring it about within our social, political and economical reality. Recognizing the relative merits of both theoretical proposals, Rawlsian proposal is advocated against Sen's accusations through the thesis that bringing about justice involves appealing to reasonable values and behavior historically consolidated in democratic societies. It is also emphasized the importance of reflection on the role of institutional procedures in the production of injustice
- "Varför är du sen?" En studie om elevers uppfattningar om fenomenet sen ankomst.
No full textSyfte
Studiens syfte har varit att undersöka elevers föreställningar om fenomenet "sen ankomst"
utifrån ett rättviseperspektiv. Vi har även undersökt hur lärare och elever hanterar sen
ankomst i klassrummet.
Metod
Vi har valt att genomföra en pilotstudie där vi har använt oss av observationer och en
enkätundersökning.
Resultat
Resultatet av vår studie visar att de flesta av de tillfrågade eleverna efterfrågar lärares
uppmärksamhet vid sen ankomst. Detta då de tillfrågade eleverna menar att rättvisan kräver
att sena ankomster uppmärksammas. Utifrån våra observationer kunde vi se att sena
ankomster mycket sällan uppmärksammas. Vad vi dock kunde se var att de flesta sena
ankomster var ljudlösa men att de sena ankomsterna som var ljudliga resulterade i en synbart
orolig stämning i klassrummet.
I vår studie visar resultatet även att elever inte anser att rättvisan kräver att sena ankomster
skall behandlas lika. De tillfrågade eleverna lyfter fram skillnader i orsaker som en viktig
faktor när det kommer till hur sena ankomster skall behandlas på ett rättvist sätt. Dessa
skillnader kan antingen vara individrelaterade eller systemrelaterade
Can the Capability Approach be Evaluated within the Frame of Mainstream Economics? A Methodological Analysis
No full textThe aim of this article is to examine the capability approach of Amartya Sen and mainstream economic theory in terms of their epistemological, methodological and philosophical/cultural aspects. The reason for undertaking this analysis is the belief that Sen’s capability approach, contrary to some economists’ claim, is uncongenial to mainstream economic views on epistemology and methodology (not on ontologically). However, while some social scientists regard that Sen, on the whole, is a mainstream economist, his own approach strongly criticizes both the theory and practice of mainstream economics.Amartya Sen, Mainstream economics, Methodological individualism.
OVERCOMING POSITIVISM IN ECONOMICS: AMARTYA SEN'S PROJECT OF INFUSING ETHICS INTO ECONOMICS
No full textLogical Positivism, which arose in philosophy early in the twentieth century, proclaimed the sharp distinction between facts and values. Despite objections at the time, positivism was imported into economics in the 1930s. Over time, objections lessened; economics was transformed and ethical considerations were driven out of its core. In the 1950s, debates about positivism arose within the discipline which had exported it. According to the American philosopher Hilary Putnam, the fact/value distinction is now discredited in philosophy. If that is so, the methodological foundations of contemporary economics are also discredited. In this article I examine Amartya Sen’s moral science of economics. First, I will present his historical account of the connections between economics and ethics. Sen claims that there was a close connection between the two until positivism was imported. Second, I will sketch some of Sen’s ethical objections to modern economics, which is still suffering from positivism. Finally, I will lay out some of his ideas on how economics can be returned to an ethical path. Once the ground has been cleared of positivism, ethics can re-emerge in economics in various ways. One path has been marked out by Sen.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
As críticas de Amartya Sen às teorias de justiça focadas em arranjos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2015.A presente pesquisa procura oferecer uma avaliação das críticas que o economista indiano Amartya Kumar Sen faz às Teorias de Justiça Focadas em Arranjos. Começa com a justificação da exigência de que os problemas de justiça devam ser refletidos pelo uso da razão pública e apresenta as características das Teorias de Justiça Focadas em Arranjos, um tipo de abordagem sobre os problemas de justiça derivada da tradição contratualista. Segue por uma exposição das deficiências que Amartya Sen identifica nessa abordagem e das vantagens que ele percebe em sua própria teoria de justiça. Confrontando as conclusões do economista indiano com as discussões deflagradas pela Teoria do Direito, com a perspectiva da metodologia das Ciências Sociais de Karl Popper e com as críticas que as receberam, revela que muitas reflexões já haviam sido feitas e que outras não foram percebidas como adequadas. No entanto, conclui que várias lições ainda podem ser aproveitadas.Abstract : The present research aims to provide a review of the criticisms that the Indian economist Amartya Kumar Sen does to the Justice Theories Focused on Arrangements. It begins with the justification for the requirement that justice problems must be reflected through the use of public reason and presents the characteristics of Justice Theories Focused on Arrangements, a kind of approach to the justice problems derived from the contractarian tradition. Follows by a presentation of the deficiencies that Amartya Sen identifies in this approach and the advantages that he realizes on his own theory of justice. By confronting the conclusions of the Indian economist with the discussions triggered by Legal Theory, with the perspective of the Social Science's methodology of Karl Popper and the criticisms that have received them, reveals that many considerations had already been made and others were not perceived as right ones. However, concludes that several lessons can still be enjoyed
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