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Nussbaum's capabilities approach is based on a universalistic account of central human functionings. She claims that if … central human capabilities are located within a particular kind of political liberalism, then they can become specific … squatter settlements of Istanbul. By going through Nussbaum's list of central human capabilities, I elaborate their relevance …
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Human impacts on large-scale ecological interactions effectively confer fundamental advantages of wealth and power to some members of society and not to others. As illustrated here by reference to a 1993 cholera outbreak resulting from degradation of aquatic ecosystems, these impacts can pose...
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This paper examines the implications of some of the growing literature at the borderline of ethics and economics for … a result of work on well-being and capabilities. Other areas where there has been considerable growth include population … ethics and the area which explores the link between the contractarian tradition in moral philosophy and game theory. Work …
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contrasts the basic goods approach with the utility-of-consumption and capabilities approaches and argues, on a number of …
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This paper aims at developing the Capability Approach's (CA) underlying philosophical anthropology and ethics by …
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We deal with the "Post-Malthusian" stage of falling mortality and sustained fertility, from a history of ideas perspective. We argue that minor writings provide an insight into the various shades of contemporary responses to population explosion that paved the way for a subtler understanding of...
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in the economic realm? The approaches of economic ethics that have been developed in Europe have a lot to say in the …
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