Shifting economics: fundamental questions and Amartya K. Sen’s pragmatic humanism
Amartya K. Sen’s body of work is an unrelenting project that consistently and coherently re-focuses the attention of economists and economics towards foundational questions. His capabilities framework has offered an expanded space of evaluation to directly judge the...
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Editura ASE Bucuresti
2014
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| Sumario: | Amartya K. Sen’s body of work is an unrelenting project that
consistently and coherently re-focuses the attention of economists and economics
towards foundational questions. His capabilities framework has offered an
expanded space of evaluation to directly judge the well-being of people and
society. Through a detailed survey of Sen’s intellectual development, his
readdressing fundamental rigidities in economic methodology, and his new
framework for evaluation, this paper argues that Sen has inculcated new habits
of mind, and engendered a social momentum in economic thought that takes
human complexity and the richness of societal diversity into account. Creating
a social momentum in economic thought through refocused habits of mind can
have a sustainable impact in economics only if its scope is not sub-discipline
specific, if it provides an inclusive framework, and if it builds bridges within
and outside the discipline chiefly between economics and moral philosophy.
Sen’s approach is pragmatic, courteous, and persuasive, but not divisive. It is
expansive, yet contextual; it is humanistic. In Sen, economics is an inquiry into
the nature and causes of human development. |
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