The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the German government. For the first time, this paper provides information on the use of the Capability Approach in this reporting process to international readers. We show the...

The majority of the literature related to Amartya Senś Capability Approach (CA) has been devoted to questions of development and developing countries. In this paper, however, with a theoretical concept and first empirical results at hand, we shed some light on Senś argument that the CA is also...

Vor drei Jahren widmete sich die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in einer zusammenfassenden Metastudie der Frage nach der Stabilität der Mittelschicht in Deutschland. Die Studie kam zum Ergebnis, dass von einer Schrumpfung oder gar Erosion der Mittelschicht, anders als bei anderen Studien oder...