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Adding links, adding persons, and adding structures: Using Sen's frameworks

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  • Des Gasper

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This essay is a comment on “Sen on Freedom and Gender Justice,” by Mozaffar Qizilbash, which appeared in Feminist Economics Volume 11, Number 3, November 2005. Building on the 2003 double special issue of Feminist Economics entitled “Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas,” this paper responds to the review essay by Mozaffar Qizilbash. It identifies and illustrates various possible evaluations of a theoretical system, including that it has acknowledged strengths, unrecognized strengths, remediable gaps or failings, or structural faults. The paper then looks at Sen's system as a theoretical basis for “human development”- in particular in relation to personhood, emotions, and psychological interdependence - and argues that it points in directions required for economic and social analysis, including towards theories of care, but is not itself a sufficient treatment. The paper suggests deepening Sen's system by connecting to other important languages of analysis concerning the structuring of attitudes, emotions, felt well-being, public reasoning, and politics.

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  • Des Gasper, 2007. "Adding links, adding persons, and adding structures: Using Sen's frameworks," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(1), pages 67-85.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:13:y:2007:i:1:p:67-85
    DOI: 10.1080/13545700601075179
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    1. Robert Rudolf & Sung-Jin Kang, 2015. "Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction in Korea: When Gender Matters," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 136-163, January.

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    Keywords

    Amartya Sen; theory assessment; human development; personhood; sympathy; care ethics; JEL Codes: B59; A12; A13;
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    JEL classification:

    • B59 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Other
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values

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