Justice and the Capabilities Approach

✍ Scribed by Thom Brooks

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 502
• Series: The Library of Essays on Justice
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. Justice and the Capabilities Approach is the first work of its kind to publish in one place the most influential essays in the field covering a number of topics, including constitutional law, cosmopolitanism, distributive justice, the family, feminism, global justice, human rights, poverty, and social justice. The collection should help inform both scholars and students coming to the study of the capabilities approach for the first time of both the importance and complexity of the wider debate, as well as shed light on how the approach might be further improved and applied.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction
Part I Distributive Justice
1 Amartya Sen (1985), 'Well-being, Agency, and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984', Journal of Philosophy, 82, 169-221.
2 Ronald Dworkin (2000), 'Equality of Welfare', in Sovereign Virtue, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 11-64.
3 Ronald Dworkin (2000), 'Equality of Resources', in Sovereign Virtue Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 65-119, 478-80.
Part II Human Rights
4 Martha C. Nussbaum (1997), 'Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12, pp. 23-37.
5 Robin West (2001), 'Rights, Capabilities, and the Good Society', Fordham Law Review, 69, pp. 1901-32.
6 Amartya Sen (2004), 'Elements of a Theory of Human Rights', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 32, pp. 315-56.
Part III Constitutional Law
7 Martha C. Nussbaum (2007) 'The Supreme Court 2006 Term - Foreword: Constitutions and Capabilities: "Perception" against Lofty Formalism', Harvard Law Review, 121, pp. 4-97.
8 Diane P. Wood (2010), 'Constitutions and Capabilities: A (Necessarily) Pragmatic Approach', Chicago Journal of International Law, 10, pp. 415-29.
Part IV The Family
9 Thom Brooks (2009) 'The Problem with Polygamy', Philosophical Topics, 37, pp. 109-22.
10 Amrita Basu (2010) 'Who Secures Women's Capabilities in Martha Nussbaum's Quest for Social Justice?', Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 19, pp. 201-17.
Part V Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice
11 Ingrid Robeyns (2005), 'Assessing Global Poverty and Inequality: Income, Resources, and Capabilities', Metaphilosophy, 36, pp. 30-49.
12 Noah Feldman (2007), 'Cosmopolitan Law?', Yale Law Journal, 116, pp. 1024-70.
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