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PHIL3395 |
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Novy SP09 |
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Notes for Sen’s “Development Thinking at the
Beginning of the 21st Century” |
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Capability
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Capabilities Approach |
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Positive
vs. Negative freedom |
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Against
traditional economic model based in Hobbesian self-interest |
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Development
≠ GNP growth |
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Alleviating
immediate suffering & invest in preventing its reoccurrence |
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Functional
capabilities |
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3. |
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4. |
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a. =
Impediments: ignorance, oppressio=
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privation of resources, false consciousness. |
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b. =
Poverty ≠. matter=
of
relative income |
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c. =
Poverty =3D capability-deprivatio=
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Approaches
to the “Development Problem” |
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1. =
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(“blood, sweat & tears” model) |
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Capital accumulation at any cost |
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Increase suffering in short term for bigger =
pay
off in the long term |
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Welfare not met |
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Human rights devalued |
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High inequality |
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Consumption / Investment dichotomy |
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Means/ ends |
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Historical models? |
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Benefits will trickledown |
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2. =
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(“get by with a little help from my friends” model) |
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Marx but also Adam Smith, Paine, Locke |
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Intertemporal balancing of welfare |
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3. =
Why seek economic development? |
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Tacit value judgments are inescapable |
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Operational metric vs. metric of exchange |
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Ten
capabilities
(Nussbaum) |
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1. |
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2. |
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3. |
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4. |
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a. =
producing works of own choice; pleasurable experiences; =
avoid
non-beneficial pain |
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10.<=
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Contro=
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one's Environment. Political & material |