Reiko Gotoh

Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel Part I: 1. Economics, law and ethics Amartya Sen 2. Neorepublicanism and Sens economic, legal and ethical desiderata Philip Pettit 3. The Prajapati test: response to Amartya Sen Marcel Henaff Part II: 4. The power of a democratic public Philip Pettit 5. The challenge of gender justice Martha C. Nussbaum 6. Gift, market, and social justice Marcel Henaff 7. Justice and public reciprocity Reiko Gotoh 8. Reasoning with preferences? John Broome 9. Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics: a re-examination Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu Part III: 10. On synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom Andrea Brandolini 11. Assessing childrens capabilities: operationalising metrics for evaluating music programs to poor children in Brazilian primary schools Flavio Comim 12. The search for socially sustainable development Jean-Luc Dubois Part IV: 13. Response Amartya Sen Index.

The capability theory and welfare reform

This essay examines the foundation of welfare reform in the light of Amartya Sen’s capability theory and the implications of his theory in the context of contemporary industrialized society. A method to formulate the equality of capabilities and to capture its philosophical meaning is explored from the viewpoint of a fair distributive justice; two concepts of freedom, well-being freedom and agency freedom; and the process of human life.

Against Injustice: Acknowledgements

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel Part I: 1. Economics, law and ethics Amartya Sen 2. Neorepublicanism and Sens economic, legal and ethical desiderata Philip Pettit 3. The Prajapati test: response to Amartya Sen Marcel Henaff Part II: 4. The power of a democratic public Philip Pettit 5. The challenge of gender justice Martha C. Nussbaum 6. Gift, market, and social justice Marcel Henaff 7. Justice and public reciprocity Reiko Gotoh 8. Reasoning with preferences? John Broome 9. Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics: a re-examination Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu Part III: 10. On synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom Andrea Brandolini 11. Assessing childrens capabilities: operationalising metrics for evaluating music programs to poor children in Brazilian primary schools Flavio Comim 12. The search for socially sustainable development Jean-Luc Dubois Part IV: 13. Response Amartya Sen Index.