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The Rise of Island Systems

In: The Decentralized Energy Revolution

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  • Christoph Burger
  • Jens Weinmann

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Any individual’s state of well-being not only depends on his or her mental predisposition and preferences, but also on the contextual — economic, social, even geographical — conditions to achieve happiness in life. Noble prize laureate Amartya Sen calls these “capabilities,” for example the ability to have access to a proper health and education system, or the ability to participate in communal decision processes, from which individuals then have the freedom to choose: “There may indeed be a case for taking incomes, or commodity bundles, or resources more generally, to be of direct interest in judging a person’s advantage, and this may be so for various reasons — not merely for the mental states they may help to generate” (2003, 191).

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  • Christoph Burger & Jens Weinmann, 2013. "The Rise of Island Systems," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Decentralized Energy Revolution, chapter 3, pages 64-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-27070-2_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137270702_4
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