The social content of human rights in Amartya Sen’s theory of ethics and economics
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For the economist Amartya Sen the existence of an essential, qualitative difference between the politically “neutral” character of economic activity and the strong ethical-political dimention of social action, should not obstruct the practical complementarity between ethics and economics. The present essay investigates this proposition, focusing especially on the social content (employment, poverty) of the rights of equality and freedom. It is argued that economic development (prosperity, goods) depends and at the same time re-produces on the basic social (as opposed to a normative or obligatory) framework of human rights.
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Κουτσογιάννης Α. (2016). The social content of human rights in Amartya Sen’s theory of ethics and economics. Social Cohesion and Development, 1(2), 57–74. https://doi.org/10.12681/scad.9016
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