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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
Limit Load Solutions for SEN(T) Specimens – 2D and 3D Problems
No full textThis paper deals with the limit load solutions for SEN(T) specimens under plane stress and plane strain conditions. The existing solutions are verified using the Finite Element Method and extended to 3D cases. The numerical results can be used to assess the strength of a structural element with a defect. This paper is a verification and extension of the author’s previous paper [2]
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
Sen Nishiyama: interview of March 2, 1985
No full textTranscript (typescript, 41 pages) of an interview with Sen Nishiyama, a Japanese-American born in Utah who emigrated to Japan in 1935. Nishiyama discusses the Depression, his father, growing up in Salt Lake City, being refused admittance to a public pool, his inability to find a job in the U. S., going to Japan, getting married, life in pre-war and occupied Japan, and working for Son
Inequalities, Agency, and Well-being: Conceptual Linkages and Measurement Challenges in Development
No full textdevelopment, inequality, gender, well-being, agency, capability, distribution, Sen
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
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
LOAIZA, Rodolfo T. (Corl. y Sen)
No full textTelegrama de Carlos Mateo Sánchez, Presidente del Partido Plutarco Elías Calles al Gral. PEC, desmintiendo las declaraciones triunfalistas del Sr. Manuel Llantada; reitera el triunfo aplastante del candidato a Senador por parte del Partido Nacional Revolucionario, Corl. Rodolfo T. Loaiza. El Sen. Loaiza pide al Gral. PEC que ordene al Jefe de Operaciones Militares de Sinaloa actuar con prudencia, ya que por falsos informes expulsó a Rodolfo L. Robles. Carta del Sen. Rodolfo T. Loaiza al Gral. PEC transcribiendo el mensaje que le envió Jesús Sarabia, quien sostiene que los hombres de ideología revolucionaria siempre estarán al lado del Gral. PEC. Telegrama del Sen. Loaiza al Gral. PEC, notificando la instalación del Comité Estatal Pro-Cárdenas en Veracruz, siendo él Presidente General de dicho Comité. Telegrama del Sen. Loaiza al Gral. PEC participándole que elementos del Partido Nacional Revolucionario no les permitieron hablar a Manrique y a Elpidio Barrera en su contra, lanzando vítores al Gral. PEC y al Gral. Cárdenas
Roy T. Cowles. The Cantonese Speakers's Dictionary.
No full textSen Ma. Roy T. Cowles. The Cantonese Speakers's Dictionary.. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 14, 1966. p. 156
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