Economic Ethics and the Capability Approach

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ID23624976
AuthorsConstanze Binder (Erasmus University Rotterdam), I Robeyns (0000-0002-2893-1814, Utrecht University)
Year2019
Pages96-113
Publication date2019-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198793991.013.5
OpenAlexW2964455924
ISBN9780198793991
LanguageEN
References cited17

This chapter introduces the capability approach and discusses its role in economic ethics. More specifically, we discuss the concept of well-being and freedom underlying the general capabilitarian framework and argue that a number of characterizing features of the capability approach, such as its focus on ends instead of means or the conception of freedom employed in it, makes it particularly well suited for the evaluation of institutions and economic systems in economic ethics. The article concludes by pointing to a number of limits and constraints of the capabilitarian framework in economic ethics.

Economic freedom · Economics · Engineering ethics · Focus (optics) · Information ethics · Management science · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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