Commodities and Capabilities¶
Sen, A. (1985). Commodities and Capabilities.
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- Optionality
- Lateral moves within organizations as options to learn new domains before deep specialization—a form of preserved choice over future life-paths that Sen (1985) frames as the capability to live the kind of life one has reason to value.
This sourceNorth-Holland. Develops the capability approach: well-being as the freedom to achieve valuable functionings, framing education, career mobility, and life-path flexibility as preserved capabilities (options on future ways of living).
- Lateral moves within organizations as options to learn new domains before deep specialization—a form of preserved choice over future life-paths that Sen (1985) frames as the capability to live the kind of life one has reason to value.
- Realized vs Possible Outcomes
- Second, a possibility set — the full collection of outcomes the process could produce under its constraints: the reachable set of a dynamical system, the feasible set of an optimization, the support of a distribution, the action set in a game, the capability set in Sen's framework.
This sourceIntroduces the capability set (possible functionings) versus achieved functionings, arguing wellbeing must be assessed on capabilities, not realized outcomes alone.
- Second, a possibility set — the full collection of outcomes the process could produce under its constraints: the reachable set of a dynamical system, the feasible set of an optimization, the support of a distribution, the action set in a game, the capability set in Sen's framework.
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