On Ethics and Economics

By Amartya Sen. 1988

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The invisible wand: adaptive co-management as an emergent strategy in complex bio-economic system (2001, background): “Other factors may be equally or more important and, most significantly, no less rational (Sen 1987; Ostrom 1990; van den Bergh et al. 2000).”
Responsibility for Each Other's Freedom: Agency as the Source of Collective Capability (2007, background): “(Sen, 1987a, p. 43) Sen acknowledges the issue that arises from the interdependence between the capacity for action and the well-being aspect, but prefers to develop the justification for the distinction between the two aspects.”
Negishi welfare weights in integrated assessment models: the mathematics of global inequality (2011, unknown): “2006), DEMETER-1CCS (Gerlagh 2006), and MIND (Edenhofer et al. 2006)—and regionally disaggregated models—RICE-2004 (Yang and Nordhaus 2006), FEEM-RICE (Bosetti et al. 2006), FUND (Tol 1999), MERGE (Manne and Richels 2004), CETA-M ( Peck and Teisberg 1999 ), GRAPE (Kurosawa 2004), and AIM/Dynamic Glo”
Equity, international trade and climate policy (2002, unknown): “Roemer (1996) and Sen (1982, 1987) champion this at a theoretic level.”
Estimation of generalized linear latent variable models (2004, background): “In economics, for example, there is a vast literature on welfare (see for example Sen (1987)) which involves measuring the standard of living of people or households in different economies.”
Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK (2007, background): “Theselattermotivationsextendbeyondsimplepreferencesfor environmental amenities onfarm, to encompass normative concerns with ‘good stewardship’ and the practice of agriculture which are better represented as ‘commitments’ rather than simply tastes ( Sen, 1987 ).”
The Social Framework for Projects: a conceptual but practical model to assist in assessing, planning and managing the social impacts of projects (2017, background): “The Capability Approach evaluates policies according to their likely impact on people’s capabilities, and covers all dimensions of human well-being, for example, asking whether people have access to a high-quality education, to real political participation, and to community activities that support t”
Water and Human Development (2014, background): “As Sen says, basic capabilities help in ‘deciding on a cut-off point for the purpose of assessing poverty and deprivation’ (Sen, 1987: 109).”
The Welfare Economic Theory of Green National Accounts (2008, background): “The resulting GNP, being a weighted sum of household incomes, would reflect distributional concerns.7 (2) Following Sen (1987) and Dreze and Sen (1990), Anand and Ravallion (1993) and UNDP (1994, pp. 14–15) have criticized those who regard GNP to be a welfare index on grounds that it is instead a…”
ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COSTS OF THE FEAR OF CRIME (2007, background): “However, it is still possible to argue that their well-being is reduced (see the work of Sen (1987), for example).”
A normative ethical framework in climate change (2007, background): “In particular, environmental distributive justice is a social concept regarding the distribution of environmental benefits, costs, risks and harms among human beings 12 ( Ali 2001, p. 2 ). In the case of climate change, the”
The Human Development Index: A History (2007, background): “…absence of interference, Sen and Nussbaum expanded on this base to include “positive freedoms” as well, like freedom from being constrained by poverty or a lack of education (Sen 1987a; Rawls 1971; Crocker 1992, 1995).5 For neo-classical economists, well-being is individual utility, a mental state.”