[BUCH][B] Amartya Sen's capability approach: Theoretical insights and empirical applications
W Kuklys - 2005 - Springer
The measurement of individual welfare levels is central to the assessment of distributive
justice and the design and evaluation of redistributive social policies (see eg Elster and
Roemer [48]). Measures of individual welfare levels are the basic input to all inequality,
poverty, or mobility analyses. While there is agreement in economics and the social
sciences that measurement of individual welfare is important, no consensus exists how
welfare should be conceptualised theoretically or measured empirically (see the different …
justice and the design and evaluation of redistributive social policies (see eg Elster and
Roemer [48]). Measures of individual welfare levels are the basic input to all inequality,
poverty, or mobility analyses. While there is agreement in economics and the social
sciences that measurement of individual welfare is important, no consensus exists how
welfare should be conceptualised theoretically or measured empirically (see the different …