Format:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415596985
,
9781135139995
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Content:
While acknowledging the progress that the capability approach has made in renewing the thinking on development, this book critiques the inadequacy of the approach, drawing conclusions about the economic analysis of development
Note:
Cover -- Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Freedom and the capability approach -- 2.1 Freedom in liberal egalitarianism -- 2.2 The capability approach -- 2.3 From freedom as a value to freedom as a norm -- 2.4 Reconsidering freedom -- 3 Freedom and responsibility -- 3.1 The agent's freedom -- 3.2 From freedom to responsibility -- 3.3 Responsibility reconsidered -- 3.4 Another conception of responsibility -- 4 The person and responsibility -- 4.1 The question of the person -- 4.2 Personalism -- 4.3 The person beyond personalism -- 4.4 Action and responsibility -- 5 Methodology of person-centred economics -- 5.1 Individualism and ethics -- 5.2 Individualism and contextualism -- 5.3 Responsibility, reasonableness, rationality -- 6 Illustrations of the economics of the person -- 6.1 Mutual assistance and responsibilities -- 6.2 Time allocation and practical identities -- 6.3 Obtaining credit where there are no credit institutions -- 6.4 Economic analysis and responsibilities -- 7 Vulnerability, identity and responsibility -- 7.1 Vulnerability and probabilities -- 7.2 Capabilities and vulnerability -- 7.3 Vulnerability and responsibility -- 7.4 What the economies of the concentration camps have to teach us -- 8 Fallibility and fragility -- 8.1 Freedom as power over another and identity -- 8.2 Situationism and responsibility -- 8.3 Fallibility, disproportion, fragility -- 9 From the economics of the person to the responsibilities of institutions and the social precautionary principle -- 9.1 Looking back at the tragedy of Rwanda -- 9.2 Considering suffering and economic crimes -- 9.3 Recognising the responsibilities -- 9.4 For a social precautionary principle -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Ballet, Jérôme Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415596985
Language:
English
Keywords:
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