Vizard, Polly 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0740-377X
(2005)
The contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the field of human rights.
CASEpaper (91).
Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.
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Abstract
his paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist Professor Amartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways in which Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how his work has promoted cross-fertilisation and integration on this subject across traditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen’s development of a ‘scholarly bridge’ between human rights and economics is an important and innovative contribution that has methodological as well as substantive importance and that provides a prototype and stimuli for future research. It also establishes that the idea of fundamental freedoms and human rights is itself an important gateway into understanding the nature, scope and significance of Sen’s research. The paper concludes with a brief assessment of the challenges to be addressed in taking Sen’s contributions in the field of human rights forward.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Additional Information: | © 2005 Polly Vizard |
| Divisions: | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| JEL classification: | A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty > I39 - Other A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values K - Law and Economics > K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law > K39 - Other B - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology > B3 - History of Thought: Individuals > B31 - Individuals D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2008 12:46 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 19:58 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6273 |
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