Against Injustice : The New Economics of Amartya Sen (Hardcover)

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel; Part I: 1. Economics, law and ethics Amartya Sen; 2. Neorepublicanism and Sen's economic, legal and ethical desiderata Philip Pettit; 3. The Prajapati test: response to Amartya Sen Marcel Henaff; Part II: 4. The power of a democratic public Philip Pettit; 5. The challenge of gender justice Martha C. Nussbaum; 6. Gift, market, and social justice Marcel Henaff; 7. Justice and public reciprocity Reiko Gotoh; 8. Reasoning with preferences? John Broome; 9. Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics: a re-examination Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu; Part III: 10. On synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom Andrea Brandolini; 11. Assessing children's capabilities: operationalising metrics for evaluating music programs to poor children in Brazilian primary schools Flavio Comim; 12. The search for socially sustainable development Jean-Luc Dubois; Part IV: 13. Response Amartya Sen; Index.