Sen’s Capability Approach to Welfare Economics

Wiebke Kuklys and Ingrid Robeyns

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We describe Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to welfare evaluation in the language of standard welfare economics, and assess to what extent it provides a genuine alternative for individual welfare measurement and policy evaluation. We review the nascent empirical literature on the capability approach and assess whether it makes a genuine difference with standard welfare evaluation.

Keywords: capability approach; welfare economics; welfare measurement; welfarism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2004-02
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