Wellbeing, freedom and social justice : the capability approach re-examined /: the capability approach re-examined. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ingrid Robeyns.
• Authors: Robeyns, Ingrid
• Other Names: Open Book Publishers, publisher.
• Contents: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction ;1.1 Why the capability approach?;1.2 The worries of the sceptics ;1.3 A yardstick for the evaluation of prosperity and progress ; 1.4 Scope and development of the capability approach ;1.5 A guide for the reader -- 2. Core Ideas and the Framework ; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 A preliminary definition of the capability approach ; 2.3 The capability approach versus capability theories ;2.4 The many modes of capability analysis ; 2.5 The modular view of the capability approach ; 2.6 The A-module: the non-optional core of all capability theories ; 2.6.1 A1: Functionings and capabilities ; 2.6.2 A2: Functionings and capabilities are value-neutral categories ; 2.6.3 A3: Conversion factors ; 2.6.4 A4: The means-ends distinction ; 2.6.5 A5: Functionings and capabilities as the evaluative space ; 2.6.6 A6: Other dimensions of ultimate value ; 2.6.7 A7: Value pluralism ; 2.6.8 A8: The principle of each person as an end ; 2.7 The B-modules: non-optional modules with optional content ; 2.7.1 B1: The purpose of the capability theory ; 2.7.2 B2: The selection of dimensions ; 2.7.3 B3: Human diversity ; 2.7.4 B4: Agency ; 2.7.5 B5: Structural constraints ; 2.7.6 B6: The choice between functionings, capabilities, or both ; 2.7.7 B7: Meta-theoretical commitments ; 2.8 The C-modules: contingent modules ; 2.8.1 C1: Additional ontological and explanatory theories ; 2.8.2 C2: Weighing dimensions ; 2.8.3 C3: Methods for empirical analysis ; 2.8.4 C4: Additional normative principles and concerns ; 2.9 The modular view of the capability account: a summary ; 2.10 Hybrid theories ; 2.11 The relevance and implications of the modular view ; 2.12 A visualisation of the core conceptual elements ; 2.13 The narrow and broad uses of the capability approach ; 2.14 Conclusion -- 3. Clarifications ; 3.1 Introduction ; 3.2 Refining the notions of 'capability' and 'functioning' ; 3.2.1 Capability as an opportunity versus capability as an opportunity set ; 3.2.2 Nussbaum's terminology ; 3.2.3 What are 'basic capabilities'? ; 3.2.4 Conceptual and terminological refinements ; 3.3 Are capabilities freedoms, and if so, which ones? ; 3.3.1 Capabilities as positive freedoms? ; 3.3.2 Capabilities as opportunity or option freedoms? ; 3.3.3 Are capabilities best understood as freedoms? ; 3.4 Functionings or capabilities? ; 3.5 Human diversity in the capability approach ; 3.6 Collective capabilities ; 3.7 Which notion of wellbeing is used in the capability approach? ; 3.7.1 The aim and context of accounts of wellbeing ; 3.7.2 The standard taxonomy of philosophical wellbeing accounts ; 3.7.3 The accounts of wellbeing in the capability approach ; 3.8 Happiness and the capability approach ; 3.8.1 What is the happiness approach? ; 3.8.2 The ontological objection ; 3.8.3 Mental adaptation and social comparisons ; 3.8.4 Comparing groups ; 3.8.5 Macro analysis ; 3.8.6 The place of happiness in the capability approach ; 3.9 The capability approach and adaptive preferences ; 3.10 Can the capability approach be an explanatory theory? ; 3.11 A suitable theory for all normative questions? ; 3.12 The role of resources in the capability approach ; 3.13 The capability approach and theories of justice ; 3.13.1 A brief description of the literature on theories of justice ; 3.13.2 What do we need for a capability theory of justice? ; 3.13.3 From theories of justice to just practices and policies ; 3.14 Capabilities and human rights ; 3.14.1 What are human rights? ; 3.14.2 The interdisciplinary scholarship on human rights ; 3.14.3 Why a capability-based account of human rights? ; 3.14.4 Are capabilities sufficient to construct a theory of human rights? ; 3.14.5 The disadvantages ; 3.15 Conclusion -- 4. Critiques and Debates ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Is everything that's called a capability genuinely a capability? ; 4.3 Should we commit to a specific list of capabilities? ; 4.4 Why not use the notion of needs? ; 4.5 Does the capability approach only address the government? ; 4.6 Is the capability approach too individualistic? ; 4.6.1 Different forms of individualism ; 4.6.2 Does the capability approach pay sufficient attention to groups? ; 4.6.3 Social structures, norms and institutions in the capability approach ; 4.7 What about power and political economy? ; 4.7.1 Which account of power and choice? ; 4.7.2 Should we prioritise analysing the political economy? ; 4.8 Is the capability approach a liberal theory? ; 4.9 Why 'human development' is not the same idea ; 4.10 Can the capability approach change welfare economics? ; 4.10.1 Welfare economics and the economics discipline ; 4.10.2 Non-welfarism ; 4.10.3 Empirical possibilities and challenges ; 4.10.4 Towards a heterodox capabilitarian welfare economics? ; 4.11 Taking stock -- 5. Which Future for the Capability Approach? -- References -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (266 pages), 1 illustration
• Subjects: 338.9; Economic development; Social justice; Basic needs; Well-being; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783744237; 1783744235; 9781783744244; 1783744243; 9781783744251; 1783744251; 9781783744596; 1783744596
• Related ISBNs: 9781783744220; 9781783744213
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliography (pages 217-249) and index.
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