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This landmark handbook collects in a single volume the current state of cutting-edge research on the capability approach. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the approach as well as new research from leading scholars in this increasingly influential multi-disciplinary field, including the pioneers of capability research, Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Incorporating both approachable introductory chapters and more in-depth analysis relating to the central philosophical, conceptual and theoretical issues of capability research, this handbook also includes analytical and measurement tools, as well as policy approaches which have emerged in the recent literature. The handbook will be an invaluable resource for students approaching the capability approach for the first time as well as for researchers engaged in advanced research in a wide range of disciplines, including development studies, economics, gender studies, political science and political philosophy.

Economic development --- Values. --- Freedom. --- Capabilities approach (Social sciences) --- Capability approach (Social sciences) --- Social sciences --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Moral and religious aspects --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sociology of the developing countries --- Microeconomics --- ontwikkelingsbeleid --- armoedebeleid --- Sen, Amartya

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In this path-breaking book, economists and scholars from diverse disciplines use standard economic tools to investigate the formation and evolution of normative preferences. The fundamental premise is that an adequate understanding of how an economy and society are organized and function cannot be reached without an understanding of the formation and mutation of values and preferences that determine how we interact with others. Its chapters explore the two-way interaction between economic arrangements or institutions, and preferences, including those regarding social status, the well-being of others, and ethical principles. Contributions have been written especially for this volume and are designed to address a wide readership in economics and other disciplines. The contributors are leading scholars who draw on such fields as game theory, economic history, the economics of institutions, and experimental economics, as well as political philosophy, sociology and psychology, to establish and explore their arguments.

174.5 --- 330.1 --- Economics --- -Social norms --- -Values --- -Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Folkways --- Norms, Social --- Rules, Social --- Social rules --- Manners and customs --- Social control --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- 330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- 174.5 Economische ethiek. Speculatie --- Economische ethiek. Speculatie --- Moral and ethical aspects --- -Congresses --- Congresses --- -330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Axiology --- Valeurs (Philosophie) --- Social norms --- Values --- Moral and ethical aspects&delete& --- Microeconomics --- Social ethics --- Congresses. --- Economie politique --- Normes sociales --- Aspect moral --- Congrès --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics - Moral and ethical aspects - Congresses --- Social norms - Congresses --- Values - Congresses

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It is a commonplace that in making decisions agents often have to juggle competing values, and that no choice will maximise satisfaction of them all. However, the prevailing account of these cases assumes that there is always a single ranking of the agent's values, and therefore no unresolvable conflict between them. Isaac Levi denies this assumption, arguing that agents often must choose without having balanced their different values and that to be rational, an act does not have to be optimal, only what Levi terms 'admissible'. This book explores the consequences of denying the assumption and develops a general approach to decision-making under unresolved conflict. Professor Levi discusses conflicts of value in several domains - those arising in moral dilemmas, the drawing of scientific inferences, decisions taken under uncertainty, and in social choice. In each of these he adapts his theoretical framework, showing how conflict may often be reduced though not always altogether eliminated.

Conflict (Psychology) --- Social conflict --- Values --- Axiology --- Worth --- Aesthetics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Intrapsychic conflict --- Adjustment (Psychology) --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Decision making (Ethics) --- Conflit (Psychologie) --- Prise de décision (Morale) --- Values. --- -Social conflict --- Conflict (Psychology). --- Prise de décision (Morale) --- Social ethics --- Decision making --- Decision-making (Ethics) --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social conflict. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Conflits sociaux --- Valeurs (Philosophie) --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Decision making - Moral and ethical aspects

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In Rationalities in History the distinguished historian David d'Avray writes a new comparative history in the spirit of Max Weber. In a strikingly original reassessment of seminal Weberian ideas, d'Avray applies value rationality to the comparative history of religion and the philosophy of law. Integrating theories of rational choice, anthropological reflections on relativism, and the recent philosophy of rationality with Weber's conceptual framework, d'Avray seeks to disengage 'rationalisation' from its enduring association with Western 'modernity'. This mode of analysis is contextualised through the examples of Buddhism, Imperial China and sixteenth-century Catholicism - in the latter case building upon unpublished archival research. This ambitious synthesis of social theory and comparative history will engage social scientists and historians from advanced undergraduate level upwards, stimulating interdisciplinary discourse, and making a significant contribution to the methodology of history. D'Avray explores the potential of this new Weberian analysis further in his companion volume, Medieval Religious Rationalities.

Sociology of culture --- History as a science --- Social psychology --- Religions --- Law --- Rationalism --- Rational choice theory. --- Relativity. --- Values. --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Aesthetics --- Axiology --- Worth --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Psychology --- Ethics --- Relativism --- Reality --- Relationism --- Social choice --- Religion --- Belief and doubt --- Deism --- Free thought --- Realism --- Jurisprudence --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Weber, Max, --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Political and social views. --- Influence. --- Weber, Max --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯, --- Arts and Humanities --- History