For over three decades, the capability approach proposed and developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum has had a distinct impact on development theories and approaches because it goes beyond an ...

It includes a comprehensive introduction to the approach as well as new research from leading scholars in this increasingly influential multi-disciplinary field, including the pioneers of capability ...

Climate change affects women’s health, livelihoods and security disproportionately because of gender inequality and ...

The current capitalist system has created two related crises: ecological decline and social injustice. It has led to ...

John Rawls questioned whether Amartya Sen’s capability approach to moral philosophy and welfare economics was workable. There has, as a result been a huge amount of interaction between philosophers ...

Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, restoring an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE from ...

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes ...

AMARTYA SEN is Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University and a recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. Earlier in his career, he was the ...

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Senior ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen considers the alternatives. Campaigns against pollution that causes climate change often focus on reducing energy usage, when poor countries desperately need ...

Unnoticed in the rest of the country, the structures and processes of civil administration have been undergoing such drastic ...

For the past three years, she been teaching literature and composition to undergraduates in New York City. Her work as an educator inspired her to approach pedagogy philosophically at Teachers College ...