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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
Book review. Capabilities, freedom, and equality: Amartya Sen’s work from a gender perspective by Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries, and Ingrid Robeyns (eds.). Delhi: Oxford University Press.
No full textInequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development
No full textdevelopment, inequality, gender, well-being, agency, capability, distribution, Sen
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,
Sen and the art of educational maintenance: evidencing a capability, as opposed to an effectiveness, approach to schooling
No full textThere are few more widely applied terms in common parlance than ‘capability’. It is used (inaccurately) to represent everything from the aspiration to provide opportunity to notions of innate academic ability, with everything in between claiming apostolic succession to Amartya Sen, who (with apologies to Aristotle) first developed the concept. This paper attempts to warrant an adaptation of Sen’s capability theory to schooling and schooling policy, and to proof his concepts in the new setting using research involving 100 pupils from 5 English secondary schools and a schedule of questions derived from the capability literature. The findings suggest that a capability approach can provide an alternative to the dominant Benthamite school effectiveness paradigm, and can offer a sound theoretical framework for understanding better the assumed relationship between schooling and well-being
Spectral characteristics for a spherically confined- a/r+ br2 potential
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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
Discrete spectra for confined and unconfined-a/r+ br^ 2 potentials in d dimensions
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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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