Against injustice the new economics of Amartya Sen

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309) and index.

Introduction / Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel -- Economics, law, and ethics / Amartya Sen -- Neorepublicanism and Sen's economic, legal, and ethical desiderata / Philip Pettit -- The Prajâpati test : response to Amartya Sen / Marcel Hénaff -- The power of a democratic public / Philip Pettit -- The challenge of gender justice / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Gift, market, and social justice / Marcel Hénaff -- Justice and public reciprocity / Reiko Gotoh -- Reasoning with preferences? / John Broome -- Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics : a re-examination / Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu -- On applying synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being : health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom / Andrea Brandolini -- Assessing children's capabilities : operationalizing metrics for evaluating music programs with poor children in Brazilian primary schools / Flavio Comim -- The search for socially sustainable development : conceptual and methodological issues / Jean-Luc Dubois -- Response / Amartya Sen.