Against injustice : the new economics of Amartya Sen / edited by Reiko Gotoh, Paul Dumouchel.

Includes bibliographical references (page 309) and index.

Introduction / Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel -- Economics, law, and ethics / Amartya Sen -- Neorepublicanism and Sen's economic, legal, and ethical desiderata / Philip Pettit -- The Prajâpati test : response to Amartya Sen / Marcel Hénaff -- The power of a democratic public / Philip Pettit -- The challenge of gender justice / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Gift, market, and social justice / Marcel Hénaff -- Justice and public reciprocity / Reiko Gotoh -- Reasoning with preferences? / John Broome -- Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics : a re-examination / Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu -- On applying synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being : health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom / Andrea Brandolini -- Assessing children's capabilities : operationalizing metrics for evaluating music programs with poor children in Brazilian primary schools / Flavio Comim -- The search for socially sustainable development : conceptual and methodological issues / Jean-Luc Dubois -- Response / Amartya Sen.

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Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen's work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent injustices, and come to a reasoned agreement about the need to remedy them, without reference to an explicit theory of justice. Against Injustice brings together distinguished academics from a variety of different fields - including economics, law, philosophy and anthropology - to explore the ideas underlying Sen's critique of traditional approaches to injustice. The centrepiece of the book is the first chapter by Sen in which he outlines his conception of the relationship between economics, ethics and law. The rest of the book addresses a variety of theoretical and empirical issues that relate to this conception, concluding with a response from Sen to his critics.

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