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The capabilities approach to welfare (with Martha Nussbaum)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Differences Between Needs and Capabilities

The capabilities approach emphasizes the importance of choice. It's a space in which people are free, choose to do things that they value. I actually specified three different kinds of capabilities. The first is basic capability and the second is called what I call internal capability. And the third is more like the human capital approach.

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