Capability Approach: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created page with " =Characteristics= From the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach]: Initially Sen argued for five components in assessing capability: #The importance...") |
(No difference)
|
Revision as of 11:53, 2 February 2013
Characteristics
From the Wikipedia [1]:
Initially Sen argued for five components in assessing capability:
- The importance of real freedoms in the assessment of a person's advantage
- Individual differences in the ability to transform resources into valuable activities
- The multi-variate nature of activities giving rise to happiness
- A balance of materialistic and nonmaterialistic factors in evaluating human welfare
- Concern for the distribution of opportunities within society