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Capabilities, resources, and systematic injustice: a case of gender inequality

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  • Jude Browne

    (Cambridge University, UK, jmb63@cam.ac.uk)

  • Marc Stears

    (Oxford University, UK, marc.stears@university-college.oxford.ac.uk)

Abstract

Focusing on the debate between resource egalitarians and capability theorists, with particular attention to gender equality, this article rejects the prevailing assumption that the ‘capability approach’ to equality, as outlined by Amartya Sen, is better able to respond to important empirically identifiable inequalities than its resource egalitarian alternative, as developed by Ronald Dworkin. Developing and expanding upon the often overlooked Dworkinian ‘principle of independence’, the article contends that resource egalitarianism is capable of identifying and responding to a complex set of structural inequalities that remain outside the purview of the capability approach.

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  • Jude Browne & Marc Stears, 2005. "Capabilities, resources, and systematic injustice: a case of gender inequality," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 4(3), pages 355-373, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pophec:v:4:y:2005:i:3:p:355-373
    DOI: 10.1177/1470594X05056608
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