Agency, socially contemplated

Autores/as

  • Antonio D’Agata University of Catania

Palabras clave:

Amartya Sen, well-being measurement, agency, capability, Workers, Women

Resumen

Well-being and agency are the two pillars of the capability approach. In this paper we emphasize that a proper analysis of agency requires an explicit treatment of social interaction. We show that once agency is framed within an interactive context, the two dimensions of individual action are strongly intertwined. In addition, interdependency hints for collective behaviour, thus, developing an example introduced by Sen (1990), we provide a simple threshold model explaining labour market participation of women as an emergent phenomenon. The model is able to provide an alternative explanation of extreme variations of this phenomenon in culturally homogeneous areas.

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Biografía del autor/a

Antonio D’Agata, University of Catania

 

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Publicado

2024-03-27

Cómo citar

D’Agata, A. (2024). Agency, socially contemplated. ÉTICA, ECONOMÍA & BIEN COMÚN, 14(2). Recuperado a partir de https://journal.upaep.mx/index.php/EthicsEconomicsandCommonGoods/article/view/314

Número

Vol. 14 Núm. 2 (2017)

Sección

Artículos de investigación

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