Amartya Sen's capability approach : theoretical insights and empirical applications /
"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, b...
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2005.
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| Series: | Studies in choice and welfare.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kuklys, Wiebke. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Amartya Sen's capability approach : |b theoretical insights and empirical applications / |c Wiebke Kuklys. |
| 260 | |a Berlin ; |a New York : |b Springer, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 116 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Studies in choice and welfare | |
| 500 | |a Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, Cambridge University. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-112) and index. | ||
| 520 | 1 | |a "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."--BOOK JACKET. | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t Introduction -- |g 2. |t Sen's capability approach to welfare economics / |r Wiebke Kuklys and Ingrid Robeyns -- |g 3. |t measurement of functionings achievement : structural equation models as an alternative -- |g 4. |t Functionings-based vs. income-based inequality measures : informational content and robustness -- |g 5. |t monetary approach to capability measurement of the disabled in the UK. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Welfare economics |x Mathematical models. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social choice |x Mathematical models. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Poverty |x Mathematical models. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a People with disabilities |z Great Britain |x Economic conditions |v Case studies. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Sen, Amartya, |d 1933- |
| 650 | 0 | |a Capabilities approach (Social sciences) | |
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| 830 | 0 | |a Studies in choice and welfare. | |
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