Amartya Sen: ethics and economics Amartya Sen. Ética y economía

This essay presents two contributions of the Amartya Sen to the debates over ethics and economics. First, his break with utilitarianist and welfarist ethics -the foundation of normative economics- and his call to modify the metrics of utility, the only 'field of information' that these nor...

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Main Author: Hernández Andrés
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 1998-12-01
Series:Cuadernos de Economía
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ceconomia/article/view/11527