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Transforming Unjust Structures

The Capability Approach

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Editors:
  1. Séverine Deneulin

    1. St Edmund's College, UK

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  2. Mathias Nebel

    1. Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City

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  3. Nicholas Sagovsky

    1. Liverpool Hope University, UK

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  • Dealing with structural injustice from the perspective of the capability approach
  • Bringing into dialogue the liberal political tradition (Sen, Nussbaum, Rawls) with the hermeneutical tradition (Paul Ricoeur) in matters of justice
  • Use of ‘case studies’ drawn from European, UK, USA, Indian, South African and global situations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy (LOET, volume 19)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  4. Back Matter

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SÉVERINE DENEULIN, MATHIAS NEBEL AND NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Structural injustice has traditionally been the concern of two major academic disciplines: economics and philosophy. The dominant model of economics has long been that of neo-classical economics. For neo-classical economists, human we- being is to be assessed by the availability of disposable income or according to goods consumed; it is measured by the levels of utility achieved in the consumption of commodities. Social order is fashioned by the ways consumers maximise their 1 well-being and enterprises maximise their profits. A core assumption is that all 2 commodities are commensurable: they can all be measured according to a single 3 numerical covering value, which is their price. Within this neo-classical paradigm, justice is achieved when the utility level of someone cannot be increased without 4 another person seeing his or her utility level decrease. The dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics was strongly challenged when development and welfare economist Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His work offered an alternative to the neo-classical evaluation of human well-being in the utility/commodity space. The underlining philosophical intuition behind Sen’s work is that the standard of living lies in the living and not in the consumption of commodities. In searching for an alternative measure of human well-being, Sen devised his capability approach.

Editors and Affiliations

  • St Edmund's College, UK

    Séverine Deneulin

  • Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City

    Mathias Nebel

  • Liverpool Hope University, UK

    Nicholas Sagovsky

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