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Rawls’ influence and counter-influence on Sen: post-welfarism and impartiality
Gilardone, Muriel - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2011
Rawls has been a constant reference for Sen both to overcome welfarism and consider impartiality. In this paper, we …’ll try to identify Sen’s paradoxical relationship to Rawls’ work that has evolved with time. The dialogue between both … authors emerged in the late sixties, while Sen was working on a constructive social choice theory. Sen greatly benefited from …
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Capabilities and Wellbeing: Evidence Based on the Sen-Nussbaum Approach to Welfare
Anand, Paul; Hunter, Graham; Smith, Ron - Department of Economics, Open University - 2004
development of the capabilities framework by Sen and others. Motivated by the claim that freedom should play a key role in social …
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Gebraucht, geschaetzt und in Gefahr: Buergerschaftliches Engagement in der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft (Recognised, rewarded, and at risk: Voluntary work in Germany’s Social Market Ec...
Wegner, Martina - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 14 (2013) 1, pp. 28-41
Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft setzt in ihrer Ausgestaltung zum aktivierenden Sozialstaat auf Buergerschaftliches Engagement, das seit einigen Jahren verstaerkt von der Politik gefoerdert wird. Die Zivilgesellschaft uebernimmt und gestaltet dadurch u.a. Bereiche, die einst hoheitlich vom Staat...
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Politische Verantwortung in der Marktwirtschaft – Zur Uebertragung von Citizenship-Konzepten auf Konsumenten und Unternehmen (Political Responsibility in Market Arenas)
Kneip, Veronika - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik - … 14 (2013) 1, pp. 62-85
Mit der Verwendung des Buergerbegriffs fuer Konsumenten und Unternehmen erfolgt eine Verschraenkung von Wirtschaftssphaere und politischer Arena, die in einem Spannungsverhaeltnis zu bestehenden Entwuerfen von (Staats-)Buergerschaft steht. Gegenstand des Beitrags ist es, diese Neukonfigurationen...
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The Money of the Mind and the God of Commodities – The real abstraction according to Sohn-Rethel
Machado, Cardoso; Miguel, Nuno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
According to Sohn-Rethel there is a “secret identity” between commodity form and thought form. Commodity exchange is a real abstraction – embodied in money – and constitutes a social a priori which reflects itself in the conceptual abstraction, i.e., in the abstract thought typical of...
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Ética y Justicia. Reflexiones a partir de The Idea of Justice de Amartya Sen
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of … Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen … Justice proposed by Sen has clear pragmatic features and does not pretend to determine an ideal set of conditions under which …
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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises
Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...
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Frank Knight and original sin.
Nelson, Robert H. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2000
Frank Knight was the key person in founding the Chicago school of economics. In this respect he was a seminal figure in the history of twentieth century economics. Yet, few current economists know much about Knight. After his early success in 1921 with Risk, Uncertainty and Profit - Knight's...
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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Field of Human Rights
Vizard, Polly - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005
This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human … rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen's research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the … across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen's development of a 'scholarly bridge' between human …
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“Veiling The Controversies with Dubious Moral Attitudes”? Creditors and Debtors in Keynes’s Ethics of International Economic Relations
Carabelli, Anna M.; Cedrini, Mario A. - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi … - 2010
This paper addresses the enduring insistence on the moral dimension of international economic relations in Keynes’s economics and diplomacy. The issue has so far raised scarce attention in the literature, which tend to attribute some outstanding failures of Keynes’s economic diplomacy to the...
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