Index
accounts of 64
definition 63
Alkire, Sabina 16, 44, 52, 72, 177, 187, 198
analysis
conceptual 27
descriptive 27
evaluative 27
explanatory 27
normative 27
Anderson, Elizabeth 31, 155, 156
aspirations 63, 122, 128, 131, 138, 139, 140, 141
Barclay, Linda 166
Basu, Kaushik 40
Baujard, Antoinette 76
Berlin, Isaiah 99, 100, 101, 102, 103
Burchardt, Tania 73, 112, 131, 134, 140, 142, 168
Byskov, Morten Fibieger 71
capabilities 38
as opportunities 39
community 115
conceptual properties 40
definition 39
determinants of 146
general 95
general versus specific 96
individual 116
internal 93
multiple realisability 97
personal 117
robustness 97
value neutrality 42
capability analysis
capability approach
cartwheel model 36
limitations of 216
modular view of 23, 36, 74, 77, 85, 117, 212
multidimensional 8
narrow versus broader interpretation 84
specifying 29
versus capability theory 22, 29, 30, 194
visualisation 82
interdependent 84
hybrid 76
logically possible but empirically implausible 214
Martha Nussbaum’s work as a 79
capacité 106
care 42
child care 39, 42, 52, 135, 159, 213. See also children
work 14
Carruthers, David 115
Chiappero-Martinetti, Enrica 191
children 6, 8, 12, 13, 24, 33, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 52, 58, 92, 109, 111, 125, 135, 157, 159, 160, 161, 180, 181, 189, 213
theory of 82, 109, 112, 189, 190
Claassen, Rutger 28, 64, 71, 95, 108, 196
Clark, Andrew 127
Clark, David A. 140
collective action 117
communities 15
consequentialism 144
conventionalism 149
conversion factors 45, 49, 72, 81, 113, 188
and public policies 47
three types 46
cost-benefit analysis 26
Crocker, David A. 86
deep ecology 124
De Herdt, Tom 64
Deneulin, Séverine 42, 183, 184, 198
Derobert, Laurent 68
De-Shalit, Avner 9, 15, 97, 212
informed 122
development projects 9, 141, 174, 180
Diener, Ed 127
disabilities 108, 130, 145, 176, 187
disciplines
differences between 35, 55, 62, 90, 106, 116
lack of communication 118
miscommunication 28
Drèze, Jean 12, 13, 28, 33, 50, 146
Drydyk, Jay 157
Dworkin, Ronald 151, 152, 154, 155, 156
ecological sustainability 9, 17, 31, 56
economic growth 10, 50, 54, 146, 214
economics
normative versus positive 28
education 8, 9, 12, 14, 33, 41, 55, 108, 126, 140, 180
Elster, Jon 138
Equality and Human Rights Commission (UK) 168
applied 44
Feldman, Shelley 158
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada 127
Fleurbaey, Marc 154
flourishing 136, 138, 140, 141, 180, 181, 193, 214
Foster, James 16
exercise concept of 103
opportunity concept of 103
option-freedom versus agency-freedom 105
overall versus specific 126
positive versus negative 99, 101
functionings 38
ambigious value 43
as a proxy for capabilities 112
negative value 41
refined 97
relation to capability 93
secure 97
Gellert, Paul 158
gender 63, 66, 113, 114, 142, 161
division of paid and unpaid work 14, 68, 191
Gilabert, Pablo 162
Gilardone, Muriel 76
Gill, Kaveri 65
government 15, 27, 110, 179, 182
groups 10, 69, 114, 116, 152, 182, 186, 188
Hagerty, Michael R. 134
determinants of 127
happiness approach 9, 48, 56, 122, 126
and adaptive preferences 130
and group differences 133
and income changes 131
and mental adaptation 130
ontological objection to 129
health 8, 9, 124, 126, 127, 130, 131, 146
infectious diseases 111
mental 15, 65, 72, 98, 108, 136
social determinants of 27, 142
Holland, Breena 170
homophobia 82
human beings
embodied 58
Human Development and Capability Association 198
human development paradigm 16, 86, 176, 197
Human Development Reports 16, 176, 197, 199
human diversity 46, 63, 85, 86, 89, 113, 114, 115, 176, 188, 189, 209, 214
Human diversity 114
assumptions about 63
Ibrahim, Solava 115, 141, 180, 183, 215
identity 68
immigrants 160
income-based approach 8, 14, 159
indigenous world views 59
individualism
explanatory 185
methodological 184
normative, use of the term 59
inequality 26
income 14
opportunities versus outcomes 109
infant mortality 12
infants 108
institutions 24, 27, 50, 75, 108, 110, 125, 143, 146, 148, 182, 188, 195
interdisciplinarity 143, 209, 213
interpersonal comparisons of advantage 25, 47, 52, 85, 147, 193
Jaggar, Alison 193
agent of 182
Martha Nussbaum on 153
sufficiency 155
the metric of distributive 17, 155
theories of 9, 18, 24, 68, 147, 152
Kahneman, Daniel 132
Khader, Serene 138, 140, 141, 194
Krueger, Alan B. 132
Layard, Richard 127
libertarianism 63, 80, 181, 193
literacy 12
Marx, Karl 24
Matravers, Matt 149
means-ends distinction 47
Mehta, Pratab Bhanu 10
mental states 10, 126, 129, 138, 198
methods
descriptive 33
ethnographic 27
moral justification 62
narrative 34
qualitative 72
reflective equilibrium 154
Millennium Development Goals 159
Miller, David 148
Mill, John Stuart 24
missing women 15
monistic theory 71
multidimensionality 14, 15, 56, 70, 72
Multidimensional Poverty Index 17, 44
multidisciplinary 35
Murphy, Michael 115
basic 106
basic needs approach 175
non-contingent 178
philosophical theories of 177
Nussbaum, Martha 9, 24, 28, 30, 31, 34, 35, 38, 41, 57, 64, 72, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 112, 138, 153, 154, 155, 157, 160, 164, 167, 168, 169, 170, 172, 179, 183, 187, 193, 194, 196, 198, 212
OECD 14
Oswald, Andrew 127
parsimony 67
Pettit, Philip 104
Phillips, Anne 154
philosophy 17, 18, 27, 54, 55, 119, 143, 147, 191
political institutions 14
poverty 8, 10, 26, 78, 96, 145, 156, 193
preferences 178
principle of each person as an end 57, 59, 75
procedural fairness 86
publicity criterion 124
quality of life 14
Rawls, John 10, 30, 150, 151, 152, 154, 155
Reader, Soran 177
labour-market 65
material 10, 26, 45, 65, 81, 198
respect 56
Richardson, Henry S. 53, 54, 58
Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina 8, 11
satisfaction 39
overall life-satisfaction 10, 71, 128, 206
with functionings and capabilities 82, 136
within particular domains 127
Schkade, David 127
Schlosberg, David 115
security 14
self-help groups 115
Sen, Amartya 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 33, 38, 45, 50, 53, 55, 63, 76, 77, 79, 80, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 114, 116, 131, 135, 138, 146, 152, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 164, 166, 167, 169, 171, 172, 173, 176, 177, 184, 185, 186, 190, 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 213
Sengupta, Sunil 11
sexism 56
social arrangements 11, 24, 52, 57, 121
social choice theory 70, 80, 92, 156, 173
social contract theory 150
social indicators 125
social justice movements 117
social norms 24, 51, 81, 124, 149, 188, 190
social relationships 15, 124, 187
social structures 189, 190, 215
Stewart, Frances 42, 115, 175, 179, 183, 184, 186, 187
Streeten, Paul 200
structural constraints 49, 64, 65, 66, 68, 81, 140
Stutzer, Alois 134
Sustainable Development Goals 159, 176
Taylor, Charles 102, 103, 104, 105
technical term 25
teleology 149
Teschl, Miriam 68
time 147
undernourishment 12
UNDP 16
unpaid work 14
value
intrinsic 53
intrinsic versus ultimate 54
pluralism 55
value judgement 51
Van der Veen, Robert 134
Van Hees, Martin 199
Van Ootegem, Luc 208
Van Parijs, Philippe 151
Van Praag, Bernard 127
Veenhoven, Ruut 127, 128, 132, 135
vulnerability 97
Walzer, Michael 149
Washington consensus 200
weighing 69
welfare economics 10, 92, 99, 147, 191
definition 203
post-welfarist 204
wellbeing 10, 14, 24, 27, 48, 50, 95, 118, 195
desire-fulfilment theories of 121, 126
hedonistic theories of 121, 126
objective list theories of 121, 124, 125, 126
philosophical theories 121
Williams, Bernard 95
