"This book brings development theory and practice into dialogue with the religious tradition, in order to construct a new, trans-disciplinary vision of development, with integral ecology at its heart. It focuses on the Catholic social tradition and its conception of integral hum…
Table of Contents Introduction 1 I The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy 1 The Empiricist Background 7 2 The Entanglement of Fact and Value 28 3 Fact and Value in the World of Amartya Sen 46 II Rationality and Value 4 Sen's "Prescriptivist" Beginnings 67 5 On the Rationality …
"Are human beings motivated exclusively by self-interest? The orthodox theory of rational choice in economics thinks that they are. Amartya Sen disagrees, and his concept commitment is central to his vision of an alternative to mainstream rational choice theory. This book examin…
