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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Autor principal:	Tara Natarajan
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Publicado:	Editura ASE Bucuresti 2014
Materias:	capabilities approach evaluative space utility problematic behavioral foundations of economics Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:04413e11e90a416b8359fd59330b99342021-12-02T02:32:49ZShifting economics: fundamental questions and Amartya K. Sen’s pragmatic humanism1843-22981844-8208https://doaj.org/article/04413e11e90a416b8359fd59330b99342014-11-01T00:00:00Z http://jpe.ro/pdf.php?id=6647 https://doaj.org/toc/1843-2298https://doaj.org/toc/1844-8208Amartya 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.Tara NatarajanEditura ASE Bucurestiarticlecapabilities approachevaluative spaceutility problematicbehavioral foundations of economicsEconomics as a scienceHB71-74DEENFRJournal of Philosophical Economics, Vol VIII, Iss 1, Pp 2-30 (2014)
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description	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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title	Shifting economics: fundamental questions and Amartya K. Sen’s pragmatic humanism
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Shifting economics: fundamental questions and Amartya K. Sen’s pragmatic humanism

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