The limits of the utilitarian approach have led to a search for different notions of welfare. The income approach to well-being, in fact, doesn’t account for the diversity in human beings and for the heterogeneities of contingent circumstances. Amartya Sen, looking for broader notions of well-being, has developed an approach focused on the freedom of individuals to pursue their own project of l...

Introduction Amartya Sen occupies a unique position among modern economists. He is an outstanding economic theorist, a world authority on social choice and welfare economics; he is a leading figure in development economics, carrying out path-breaking work on appraising the effectiveness of investment in poor countries and, more recently, on the economic analysis of famines. He has greatly influ...

Professor of Surgery, Calcutta Medical College. The following table and notes are framed 011 the same principles and plan as similar statements for previous years which have appeared in this Journal. I shall, therefore, place the data on record without preface. I have much pleasure in acknowledging the willing and intelligent assistance I have obtained from Assistant Surgeon Khagendra Natii Sen...

Research on hunger and food security in the Global South and the Global North has often emphasized different factors and scales of analyses. Unlike newer monitoring systems in the Global South, which evolved substantially following critiques by Amartya Sen, US food security research has rarely combined the two dimensions of food availability and food access. Furthermore, this research has paid ...

Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany, Department of Oceanography, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 4 School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, Centro Interdisciplinar de Energia e Ambiente, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salva...

1 School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 2 ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 4 ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at ...

Sport development had been influenced by military, economic, political and social chaos. The period 1912 to 1927 was a tumultuous time for China, fragmented and ruled as it was by an assortment of regional military dictators or warlords. The first Chinese Republic was established in 1912 and soon collapsed, in 1916, when the first president Yuan Shih-kai died. National government ceased to exis...

Since the early 1990s, Amartya Sen and Mahbub al Haq advocated for a model of development that would enable individuals and communities to “lead the kind of life they choose”. This view of development, predicated on investing in human capabilities and opportunities, has resulted in widespread improvements in non-economic areas of development, notably in education and health. Measuring the succe...

X iv :1 31 0. 72 06 v1 [ qbi o. C B ] 2 7 O ct 2 01 3 Spatial anisotropy and heterogeneity in contractility and adhesion distribution may contribute to cell steering during migration Soumya S S, Subodh Kolwankar, Edna George, Santanu K. Basu, Shamik Sen, a) and Mandar M. Inamdar b) Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India WRCBB, Department of ...