Sublime

Sen is the father of the Capability Approach, a critical contribution to welfare economics which has been hugely influential since the 1980s. Instead of crude financial measures or naive hedonism, Sen argued that the highest good was the freedom to choose a life one has reason to value—to have options, and thus be able to live deliberately.

Amartya Sen – work for which he won a Nobel-Memorial prize. The focus of development, Sen argues, should be on ‘advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live’.20 Instead of prioritising metrics like GDP, the aim should be to enlarge people’s capabilities – such as to be healthy, empowered a

travaux de l’économiste et philosophe Amartya Sen, travaux qui lui valurent un prix Nobel.

work of Harvard economist and philosopher Amartya Sen in the 1980s, which led to the adoption of the Human Development Index by the UN Development Program. Sen urged the measurement not of commodities but of capabilities, the achievement of human potential. The Human Development Index is a crude attempt to do this, combining GDP with life expectanc

Selon Sen, le développement doit chercher à « favoriser la richesse de la vie humaine, plutôt que la richesse de l’économie dans laquelle les êtres humains vivent21

can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?