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Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 174 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 440 g, 2 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
  • Izdošanas datums: 26-Jul-2013
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  • ISBN-10: 041559698X
  • ISBN-13: 9780415596985
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 174 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 440 g, 2 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
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  • ISBN-10: 041559698X
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Keywords:
The capability approach has developed significantly since Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. It is now recognised as being highly beneficial in the analysis of poverty and inequality, but also in the redefinition of policies aimed at improving the well-being of individuals.

The approach has been applied within numerous sectors, from health and education to sustainable development, but beyond the obvious interest that it represents for the classical economics tradition, it has also encountered certain limitations. While acknowledging the undeniable progress that the approach has made in renewing the thinking on the development and well-being of a population, this book takes a critical stance. It focuses particularly on the approachs inadequacy vis-ą-vis the continental phenomenological tradition and draws conclusions about the economic analysis of development. In a more specific sense, it highlights the fact that the approach is too bound by standard economic logic, which has prevented it from taking account of a key person dimension namely, the ability of an individual to assume responsibility. As a result, this book advocates the notion that if the approach is used carelessly in relation to development policies, it can cause a number of pernicious effects, some of which may lead to disastrous consequences.

Due to its multidisciplinary nature, this book will be of interest to those working in the fields of economics, philosophy, development studies and sociology.

Recenzijas

"This book and its arguments deserves reading and attention, not just from the philosophically inclined in economics but also from those hoping to better understand the often overlooked complexities of economic and moral behavior." - John B. Davis, Journal of Economic Inequality

"[ The authors] traverse quite a path in this volume, crisscrossing positive and normative domains in philosophy, economics and politics...This is a densely argued book which will repay reading and discussion." - Ravi Kanbur, Journal of Economic Methodology

"In sum, the book does provide interesting material for discussion for anyone concerned with issues of agency and responsibility, and the reduction of unjust situations in a globalized world." - Oscar Garza, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

"[ T]he phenomenological reconsideration outlined in this book sheds a new light on whether the dialogue between sciences can indeed prove lucrative for economics. This is a welcome and important contribution to the debate...More importantly, Ballet, Bazin, Dubois and Mahieu re-diagnose the methodological problem of economics: by underscoring the irreducible complexity of the person, they show how the representative agent, the mathematical models, or the quantitative predictions of economic interactions are highly problematic." - Carmen Elena Dorob, Journal of Philosophical Economics

"In developing an alternative to the mainstream account of economic action, this book is to be warmly welcomed. The book usefully engages with a wide range of literature and issues, including Sens capability approach, questions of intentionality, freedom and responsibility, and the status of rights and duties. The book also provides examples of cases where individuals appear to behave in ways that the standard economic model seems unable to adequately explain." - Stephen Parsons, Review of Political Economy

List of illustrations
xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
1 Introduction
1(4)
2 Freedom and the capability approach
5(19)
2.1 Freedom in liberal egalitarianism
6(3)
2.2 The capability approach
9(7)
2.3 From freedom as a value to freedom as a norm
16(4)
2.4 Reconsidering freedom
20(4)
3 Freedom and responsibility
24(19)
3.1 The agent's freedom
25(4)
3.2 From freedom to responsibility
29(6)
3.3 Responsibility reconsidered
35(4)
3.4 Another conception of responsibility
39(4)
4 The person and responsibility
43(18)
4.1 The question of the person
43(5)
4.2 Personalism
48(4)
4.3 The person beyond personalism
52(5)
4.4 Action and responsibility
57(4)
5 Methodology of person-centred economics
61(18)
5.1 Individualism and ethics
62(5)
5.2 Individualism and contextualism
67(6)
5.3 Responsibility, reasonableness, rationality
73(6)
6 Illustrations of the economics of the person
79(16)
6.1 Mutual assistance and responsibilities
80(5)
6.2 Time allocation and practical identities
85(3)
6.3 Obtaining credit where there are no credit institutions
88(2)
6.4 Economic analysis and responsibilities
90(5)
7 Vulnerability, identity and responsibility
95(17)
7.1 Vulnerability and probabilities
96(1)
7.2 Capabilities and vulnerability
97(3)
7.3 Vulnerability and responsibility
100(4)
7.4 What the economies of the concentration camps have to teach us
104(8)
8 Fallibility and fragility
112(12)
8.1 Freedom as power over another and identity
113(5)
8.2 Situationism and responsibility
118(2)
8.3 Fallibility, disproportion, fragility
120(4)
9 From the economics of the person to the responsibilities of institutions and the social precautionary principle
124(9)
9.1 Looking back at the tragedy of Rwanda
125(1)
9.2 Considering suffering and economic crimes
126(2)
9.3 Recognising the responsibilities
128(3)
9.4 For a social precautionary principle
131(2)
Notes 133(15)
References 148(14)
Index 162
Jérōme Ballet is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, and Researcher at the Institute of Research for Development, France.

Damien Bazin is Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (GREDEG), France.

Jean-Luc Dubois is Research Professor at the Institute of Research for Development, France, and he teaches at the Catholic University of Paris, France.

Franēois-Régis Mahieu is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.