HDCA (2005). The Capability Approach as an Alternative Economic Framework. Special issue of Maitreyee, the e-bulletin of the HDCA (March 2005).

Theme: The Capability Approach as an Alternative Economic Framework

Insights

  • Culture, Development, Economics and the Capability Approach (Ingrid Robeyns, University of Amsterdam)
  • The Freedom that Enslaves (HDCA working group on popularising the capability approach)
  • ‘Winning the War of Ideas’ : Lessons from the Neo-Liberals (Angus Ritchie, Contextual Theology Centre, East London)

In practice

  • Voices of Power and Whimpers of Values: A Challenge to animating the Capability Approach (Manu V. Mathai, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware)