01255nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702800370005808200120009510000180010724500500012526000470017530000180022236500070024052007770024765000160102465000170104070000160105720260605142614.0260605b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a: Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar  a330 SEN  aSen, Amartya.  a Commodities and Capabilitiesc/ Amartya Sen.  aNew Delhi b: Oxford Univ. Pressc , 2005.  a89p.c: 24cm.  b00  aCommodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, i.e. what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard emphasis on opulence or on utility. In fact, a person's motivation behind choice is treated here as a parametric variable which may or may not coincide with the pursuit of self-interest. Given the large number of practical problems arising from the roles and limitations of different concepts of interest and the judgement of advantage and well-being, this scholarly investigation is both of theoretical interest and practical import.  aCommodities  aCapabilities  aAmartya Sen