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Part of the book series: Studies in Choice and Welfare (WELFARE)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual’s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms what she can actually do or be, her capabilities. In Chapters 1 and 2, Kuklys describes the capability approach from a standard welfare economic point of view and provides a comprehensive literature review of the empirical applications in this area of research. In the remaining chapters, novel econometric techniques are employed to operationalise the concepts of functionings and capability to investigate inequality and poverty in terms of capability in the UK. Kuklys finds that capability measurement is always a useful complement to traditional monetary analysis, and particularly so in the case of capability-deprived disabled individuals.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Amartya Sen's Capability Approach
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Authors: Wiebke Kuklys
Series Title: Studies in Choice and Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28083-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-26198-8Published: 24 June 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06562-0Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-28083-5Published: 04 October 2005
Series ISSN: 1614-0311
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8530
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 116
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods