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Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities

Shailaja Fennell editor P B Anand editor Flavio Comim editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:14th Mar '24

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Social choice & the capability approach; issues of social vs collective agency; a rich discussion of key human development applications.

Human development and Amartya Sen's capability approach have become of great interest to development scholars from different disciplines, however few books have explored the links between social choice and human development issues. This book fully explores the relevance of social choice to human development.The capability approach is a versatile framework rooted on issues of justice and multidimensional assessment of quality of life developed in the 1980s as an alternative approach to prevailing mainstream development ideas focused narrowly on economic development. Most closely associated with the work of Amartya Sen, it has become of great interest to development scholars from a variety of different disciplines. Much has already been done exploring the conceptual foundations of the capability approach and discussing Sen's contribution to the field, but few books have explored the links between social choice (another field with rich contributions by Sen) and human development issues. Featuring many of the world's leading experts on social choice theory and capability indicators, Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities combines these interrelated themes into one volume and fully explores the relevance of social choice to human development.

ISBN: 9781009232708

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 29mm

Weight: 800g

446 pages