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The Foundational Decade to Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (1970-1980)

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Between 1970 and 1980, due to economization process of extra economic field of human existence and an exclusively economic understanding of rationality, Sen realized a reversal compared to this tendency, thanks to the critical exchange with his contemporaries, as Arrow, Rawls and Harsanyi, about assumptions concerning individual preferences/collective choices, inequalities, rationality and social welfare functions. Here, I have considered this period as the foundational decade to capability approach: this analysis is fundamental not only for showing the intellectual origin of this approach, but also for avoiding dangerous trivializations which hinders a proper understanding of it.

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  • Valentina Erasmo, 2019. "The Foundational Decade to Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (1970-1980)," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 295-326.
    • Handle: RePEc:mul:jrkmxm:doi:10.1410/98221:y:2019:i:3:p:295-326
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    1. Erasmo, Valentina, 2021. "Female economists and philosophers’ role in Amartya Sen’s thought: his colleagues and his scholars," MPRA Paper 105769, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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