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UNINA9910450993103321 |
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Titolo |
Capabilities equality [[electronic resource] ] : basic issues and problems / / edited by Alexander Kaufman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; London, : Routledge, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-23685-9 |
1-281-15823-2 |
9786611158231 |
0-203-79944-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge innovations in political theory ; ; 18 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social justice |
Distributive justice |
Equality |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / Alexander Kaufman -- Distributive justice and basic capability equality : good enough is not good enough / Richard Arneson -- Capabilities as fundamental entitlements : Sen and social justice / Martha C. Nussbaum -- A sufficientarian approach? a note / Alexander Kaufman -- Capability vs. opportunity for well-being / Peter Vallentyne -- Capabilities and gender inequality / Timothy Hinton -- What goods do to (and for) people : duality and ambiguity in Sen's capability approach? / Alexander Kaufman -- Public debate and value construction in Sen's approach / Sabina Alkire -- Sen and deliberative democracy / David Crocker -- Attending to nature : capabilities and the environment / Victoria Kamsler -- Disability, capability, and thresholds for distributive justice / David Wasserman. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The capabilities approach to equality, developed by Amartyr Sen and Martha Nussbaum, seeks to answer the question: what is a proper measure of a person's condition for the purposes of determining what we owe each other, as a matter of justice? While the capabilities theory has avoided many of the conceptual difficulties that have undermined |
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