The influence of Sen’s applied economics on his non-welfarist approach to justice

Muriel Gilardone

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Abstract: This chapter shows that Sen's (2009) non-welfarist approach to justice is greatly influenced by 1) his work on famines; 2) his empirical work on gender inequalities, specifically within the Indian society, that helped him to refine his approach to hunger; and 3) his involvement in the creation of the human development approach. All these engagements — seemingly completely separate from his theoretical work in welfare economics — have, in fact, fostered the formulation of a novel approach in which agency and public reasoning are the core elements.

Keywords: Amartya Sen; agency; public action; famines; gender inequalities; human development; perception bias; democracy; public reasoning; non-welfarism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03-04
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Published in Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the history of Welfare Economics, 1, Cambridge University Press, pp.298-319, 2021, 9781108882507. ⟨10.1017/9781108882507⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/9781108882507

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