Sen’s Capability Approach as a new social-liberal paradigm (In French)

Alexandre Bertin ()

Cahiers du GREThA from Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to show that Amartya Sen’s idea can be rooted in the social-liberal paradigm. Combining the respect of an unconditional freedom and the research of a real equality, Sen, thanks to the Capability Approach, proposes a framework for a new theory of justice.

Keywords: capabilities; social-liberalism; democracy; liberalism; socialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B10 B14 B24 I0 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-hap and nep-hpe
Date: 2008

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