Amartya Sen, "Creating Capabilities: Sources and Consequences for Law and Social Policy"

This conference, organized by James Heckman, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pollak, examines a variety of conceptions of human capability, including the Human Development and Capabilities Approach in relation to the recent literature on the economics, neuroscience, and psychology of human development in order to enrich both fields. The conference will foster a broader notion of capability formation than just formal education or cognition. It will adopt a life cycle perspective on capability expression and formation. Recent research documenting the contributions of families, schools, governments, and other institutions of society (including religious bodies, community groups, foster care, the juvenile justice system, and on-the-job training) to the formation of capabilities in children, adolescents, and young adults suggests that a broader framework for the Human Development Approach would be useful. The aim of the conference is to integrate recent advances in understanding how capabilities are produced into the Human Development Approach and to study the implications of the revised research program for law and public policy. Amartya Sen, the 1998 winner of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, provided the keynote address on April 23, 2010.

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Great oppertunity hearing your enlighten lecture here...

[@drgalibhussain]

Highly enlightening and interesting concept but falls short of operanalizatin of the theory.

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[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

Tautology nothing else. What is new in this jargon. If someone has enough money he can have everything. This is known to a child as well. Sen has nothing new to offer, he is just playing with words.

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Your comment is pretty much the perfect example of a strawman argument.

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It isn’t a tautology that the possession of money entails the possession of capabilities. This can be seen by noting that two people with identical earning power may have (will likely have) different capabilities.