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Commodities and Capabilities [книги]
Опубликовано на портале: 06-01-2004
Amartya Sen
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 688 с.
Commodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the
foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal
well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function,
i.e. what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard
emphasis on opulence or on utility. In fact, a person's motivation behind choice
is treated here as a parametric variable which may or may not coincide with the pursuit
of self-interest. Given the large number of practical problems arising from the roles
and limitations of different concepts of interest and the judgement of advantage
and well-being, this scholarly investigation is both of theoretical interest and
practical import.

