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General Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2020

By
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti ,
Siddiqur Osmani  and
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Edited by
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti ,
Siddiqur Osmani  and
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
Affiliation:
University of Pavia
Siddiqur Osmani
Affiliation:
Ulster University
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Affiliation:
University of York
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Summary

We welcome readers to the Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach. We begin with some preliminary remarks about: (1) the state of capability research; (2) the basic concepts used in the approach; and (3) a brief explanation of the organization and structure of the Handbook.

Modern work on the ‘capability approach’ (or ‘capabilities approach’) dates from Amartya Sen’s 1979 Tanner Lecture on ‘Equality of What?’ which addressed a central question for egalitarians: what should egalitarians seek to equalize? In this context Sen suggested that ‘what is missing in all this … is some notion of “basic capabilities”: a person being able to do certain basic things’ (Sen 1982: 367).

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach , pp. 1 - 4
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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