Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and
expanded second edition'Can the values which individual members of society attach to …

This new edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political
theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo …

This is an agenda-setting exploration of the relationship between green politics and liberal
ideology. Ecological problems provide unique challenges for liberal democracies.; This …

There is a long tradition in economics of evaluating social arrangements by the extent to
which individuals' preferences are satisfied. This is the tradition of welfarism, which has …

Previous empirical research on the social and economic impact of freedom has tended to
focus on the link between freedom and economic growth rates. Only a few studies have …

Main description: Armut wird meist anhand des Einkommens gemessen. Diese Praxis wird
seit längerem kritisiert. Zum einen besteht die Forderung nach einem multidimensionalen …

This article proposes an alternative conceptualization of freedom of choice. The endeavour
is motivated by the view that welfare comprises various capabilities (prominently among …

Zugang zu Informationen wird in modernen Gesellschaften immer bedeutsamer. So einfach
dies klingt, so weitreichend sind die Konsequenzen für die Menschen der neuen …

This paper studies the problem of ranking compact and comprehensive opportunity sets in
terms of freedom of choice that they offer to an individual. It proposes several intuitively …

The paper provides freedom measures for game theoretic settings. Three core philosophical
concepts of freedom are measured: positive, negative, and republican liberty. The measures …