Entitlement Failure

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ID3884580
AuthorsBen Fine (0000-0002-4301-0730, University of London, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume28
Issue4
Pages617-647
Publication date1997-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-7660.00058
OpenAlexW4234843299
LanguageEN
Citations received17

In this article, the literature around the entitlement approach to famine is assessed against the background of recent developments in economics which are perceived to have increasingly encroached upon the previously neglected subject matter of the other social sciences. In this light, emphasis is given to the tension that exists in the entitlement approach between its micro-foundations and macro-consequences and causes. This, in turn, is related to the broader problem in social theory of the relations between structures and agency. Whilst it is found that the entitlement approach does embody an implicit causal content in the filtering of socioeconomic mechanisms through the distribution of individual entitlements, it is ultimately argued that the approach is primarily suited to investigative rather than causal analysis

Agency (philosophy) · Economic growth · Economics · Entitlement (fair division) · Epistemology · Law and economics · Macro · Microeconomics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Subject matter · Computer Science · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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