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GOTOH Reiko &
DUMOUCHEL Paul (Eds.) November 2009
Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen, Cambridge University Press. 328p. ISBN-10: 0521899591 ISBN-13: 978-0521899598 8,435
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Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists, and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen’s work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent injustices, and come to a reasoned agreement about the need to remedy them, without reference to an explicit theory of justice. Against Injustice brings together distinguished academics from a variety of different fields --including economics, law, philosophy, and anthropology-- to explore the ideas underlying Sen’s critique of traditional approaches to injustice. The centerpiece of the book is the first chapter by Sen in which he outlines his conception of the relationship between economics, ethics, and law. The rest of the book addresses a variety of theoretical and empirical issues that relate to this conception, concluding with a response from Sen to his critics.
■Table of Contents
List of figures PageVii
List of tables Viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
REIKO GOTOH AND
DUMOUCHEL Paul
Part I 37
1 Economics, law, and ethics 39
AMARTYA SEN
2 Neorepublicanism and Sen's economic, legal, and ethical desiderata 55
PHILIP PETTIT
3 The Prajâpati test: response to Amartya Sen 66
MARCEL HÉNAFF
Part II 71
4 The power of a democratic public 73
PHILIP PETTIT
5 The challenge of gender justice 94
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM
6 Gift, market, and social justice 112
MARCEL HÉNAFF
7 Justice and public reciprocity 140
REIKO GOTOH
8 Reasoning with preferences? 161
JOHN BROOME
9 Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics: a re-examination 187
PRASANTA K. PATTANAIK AND YONGSHENG XU
Part III 219
10 On applying synthetic indices of multidimentional well-being: health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom 221
ANDREA BRANDOLINI
11 Assessing children's capabilities: operationalizing metrics for evaluating music programs with poor children in Brazilian primary schools 252
FLAVIO COMIM
12 The search for socially sustainable development: conceptual and methodological issues 275
JEAN-LUC DUBOIS
Part IV 295
13 Response 297
AMARTYA SEN
Index 310
*Prepared by
KATAOKA Minoru,
WATANABE, Katsunori
UP: December 15, 2009 REV:Dec 08, 2011/April 14, 2015/July 13, 2015