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September 2011 - 'The Capability Approach as a Theory of Justice'

Table of Contents

  • ‘The Capability Approach as a Theory of Justice: Clarifications and Challenges’ (Krushil Watene)
  • Sen on Justice, Deliberation, and Individuals (John B. Davis)
  • Taking Sen’s Commitment to Evaluation Seriously (Thomas Wells)
  • The Capability Approach to intergenerational justice: A survey (Rebecca Gutwald, Ortrud Leßmann, Torsten Masson, Felix Rauschmayer)
  • An overview of ‘Resisting ‘Global Justice’: Disrupting the ‘Emancipatory’ logic of the West’: Some considerations for the Capability Approach as a theory of justice (Krushil Watene)
  • March 2011 - The environment

    September 2010 - Religion and Human Development

    March 2010 - Citizen accountability

    October 2009 -- Culture and Development

    June 2009 -- Collecting Capability Data

    February 2009 -- Gender and Macro Policy

    October 2008 -- Operationalisation of the capability approach

    June 2008-- Social Exclusion/Inclusion

    February 2008 -- Employment

    October 2007 -- Measuring Dimensions of Wellbeing

    June 2007 -- Research and Politics

    February 2007 -- multidimensional aspect of poverty/wellbeing

    October 2006 -- Power

    June 2006, Issue 5 -- The 2006 Global Human Development Report

    February 2006 -- Public Debate and Human Development

    October 2005 -- Knowledge and Public Action

    June 2005--Contributions to the MDGs

    March 2005--The capability approach as an alternative economic framework