Commodities and Capabilities

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Digital divide research, achievements and shortcomings (2006, background): “First, information is considered to be a primary good (see Rawls, 1971 and Sen, 1985).”
An Unworkable Idea or a Promising Alternative? Sen's Capability Approach Re-examined (2000, methodology): “Sen has explored the differences between well-being, agency, freedom and achievement in detail in his Dewey lectures (Sen 1985b).”
Capabilities, human capital and education (2007, background): “8 Classical references for foundations and evolutions of the CA are Sen (1985, 1992), Nussbaum and Sen (1993) and Alkire (2002a,b).”
From food availability to nutritional capabilities: Advancing food security analysis (2016, background): “…make any reference to the concept of food security, they develop a general analytical framework for studying hunger, chronic or transitory, and all related aspects, based both on the capability approach of Sen (1985, 1999) and his entitlement approach: undernourishment, malnutrition, famines, etc.”
Comparing Child Well-Being in OECD Countries: Concepts and Methods (2006, background): “This links closey to Sen’s concept of capability deprivation (Sen 1985, 1999, 2000).”
Investing in smallholder agriculture for food security (2013, background): “Health and nutritional status are key components of human capital (Lipton and de Kadt, 1988), as well as education all throughout life, key to achieve what Sen (1985) calls “capabilities”.”