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Commodities and capabilities

A set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, i.e. what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard emphasis on opulence or on utility

Print Book, English, 1985
North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., Amsterdam, New York, 1985