Measuring Justice Primary Goods and Capabilities

Name: Measuring Justice Primary Goods and Capabilities
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ISBN: 9780521711470

ISBN-10: 0521711479

ISBN-13: 9780521711470

Edition: 2010

Authors: Harry Brighouse, Ingrid Robeyns

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Book details

List price: $53.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.94" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ingrid Robeyns is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. She was co-editor for Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective (2005).



List of contributors


Acknowledgments



Introduction: Social primary goods and capabilities as metrics of justice




Theory



A critique of the capability approach




Equal opportunity, unequal capability




Justifying the capabilities approach to justice




Two cheers for capabilities




Applications



Capabilities, opportunity, and health




What metric of justice for disabled people? Capability and disability




Primary goods, capabilities, and children




Education for primary goods or for capabilities?




Gender and the metric of justice




Concluding Essay



The place of capability in a theory of justice



Index