rawls and habermas - The Problem of Consensus in Habermas and Rawls: Rethinking the Basis of Deliberative Democracy

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Much of the deliberative democracy literature (and democratic theory in general) is based on the idea of consensual decision-making – the idea that an argument would be acceptable to all affected if the discussed it long and freely enough. Unfortunately, the idea of consensual decision-making has seriously logical problems, as demonstrated by Rae (1975) in the context of social contract theory. Essentially, if a decision has to be made, there is always an implicit threat that will be carried out if consensus is not reached, and therefore discussion cannot be free. In political context typically a decision has to be made, as even a non-decision is a de facto decision, and may even be some participants favored option. If it were simply the case that an ideal speech situation is practically impossible to obtain, this would not be a problem for theories of deliberative democracy proceeding from Habermas, as the ideal speech situation is a counterfactual. However, if the ideal speech situation is logically impossible (could not exist in any possible world) then it cannot serve as a counterfactual and cannot provide a basis for a theory of deliberative democracy. While I argue that consensus fails as a basis for deliberative democracy, I argue that a theory of deliberative democracy based on majority rule is still possible. Following Nino and Knight & Johnson, I argue that although political decision-making is inevitably coercive, it is still possible to distribute coercive power equitably.

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look these things up sunday - poverty in gggl books AGAIN

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van parijs - what if anythign can justify capitalism?

POVERTY LINES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE - RAVALLION

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Book overview

World Bank Technical Paper No. 391. Pollution Management Series. As environmental protection is attracting increasing political attention and public support, many developing countries are designing and putting into practice environmental institutions. This study analyzes the experience of several OECD countries in order to identify factors that influence the role and success of environmental management; possible causes of the discrepancy between national environmental objectives and actual performance; and implications of lessons learned and recommendations for countries that are in the process of establishing or redesigning their environmental management systems. Full view - Item notes: no. 133 - 1998 - 35 page _______________________ sachs Influences John Maynard Keynes Opposed William Easterly, Daron Acemoğlu, Dambisa Moyo Influenced Nouriel Roubini, Jared Diamond CRITICS OF SACHS RANKING OF ECONOMISTS - SACHS DOESN'T EVEN APPEAR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daron_Acemoğlu this guy is No. 8 as of October 2009 Amartya Sen is 157 (but he is a welfare ecnomist and ppl probly don't care) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo author of dead aid Save Escaping the resource curse / edited by Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Joseph E. Stiglitz Location Call # Status MRT General HD 9578 .D44 E83 2007 DUE 09-12-09

Monday, August 24, 2009

Essays in honor of Amartya Sen

Arguments for a Better World:
Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen

Volume I:
Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement

Volume II:
Society, Institutions, and Development



Edited by Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur
(Oxford University Press, 2009)

Description

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the poor, and for plurality in cultural perspective. It is not surprising that he has won the highest awards, ranging from the Nobel Prize in Economics to the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. This public recognition has gone hand in hand with the affection and admiration that Amartya's friends and students hold for him.

The two volumes contents 58 essays, written in honor of his 75th birthday by his students and peers, covers the range of contributions that Sen has made to knowledge. They are written by some of the world's leading economists, philosophers and social scientists, and address topics such as ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human development, society and politics.

The first volume covers the topics of Ethics, Normative Economics and Welfare; Agency, Aggregation and Social Choice; Poverty, Capabilities and Measurement; and Identity, Collective Action and Public Economics. The second volume covers the topics of Human Development and Capabilities; Gender and Household; Growth, Poverty and Policy; and Society, Politics and History.

Among the essays can be mentioned:

John Broome: Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory [paper]

Edmund S. Phelps: The Good Life and the Good Economy: The Humanist Perspective of Aristotle, the Pragmatists and Vitalists, and the Economic Justice of John Rawls [paper]

Mozaffar Qizilbash: The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics [paper]

T. M. Scanlon: Rights and Interests

Arjun Sengupta: Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development

Ingrid Robeyns: Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach [paper]

Sabina Alkine: Concepts and Measures of Agency [paper]

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Sen's Identities

A. B. Atkinson: Welfare Economics and Giving for Development [paper]

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr: Human Rights and Human Development [paper]

Jonathan Glover: Identity, Violence and the Power of Illusion

Ayesha Jalal: Freedom and Equality: From Iqbal's Philosophy to Sen's Ethical Concerns

Martha C. Nussbaum: The Clash Within: Democracy and the Hindu Right

Elinor Ostrom: Engaging Impossibilities and Possibilities [paper]

http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/2009/08/essays-in-honor-of-amatya-sen.html

itle Poverty and psychology : from global perspective to local practice / edited by Stuart C. Carr, Tod S. Sloan. Publisher New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003.

Location	Call #	Status
MRT General	HM 1041 .P68 2003	IN LIBRARY

Table of Contents
	1.	Poverty and Psychology: An Introduction / Stuart C. Carr				1
I.	Insecurity
	2.	Poverty and Power / Isaac Prilleltensky				19
	3.	Poverty and Justice / Stuart C. Carr				45
	4.	Poverty and Psychopathology / Virginia Moreira				69
	5.	Poverty and Unemployment / David Fryer, Rose Fagan				87
	6.	Poverty and Place / Peter Spink				103
II.	Empowerment
	7.	Poverty and Community / Euclides Sanchez, Karen Cronick, Esther Wiesenfeld				123
	8.	Poverty and Prejudice / Anthony F. Lemieux, Felicia Pratto				147
	9.	Poverty and Wealth / Adrian Furnham				163
	10.	Poverty and Discourse / David J. Harper				185
	11.	Poverty and Economic Crisis / The Aus-Thai Project Team				205
III.	Opportunity
	12.	Poverty and Youth / Carola Eyber, Alastair Ager				229
	13.	Poverty and Enterprise / Bill Ivory				251
	14.	Poverty and Process Skills / Malcolm MacLachlan, Eilish Mc Auliffe				267
	15.	Poverty and Research / Stuart C. Carr, Stephen G. Atkins				285
	16.	Poverty and Psychology: A Call to Arms / Tod S. Sloan				301
	Index					315

Description viii, 320 p. ; 24 cm. Series International and cultural psychology International and cultural psychology series. Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary Carr (Massey University, New Zealand) and Sloan (Georgetown University) bring together academics, community practitioners, and clinicians studying the ramifications of poverty in groups and individuals, with a focus on positive and critical psychology. Covering a range of settings, from the inner cities of England to the indigenous communities of the Australian outback, contributors address the needs of poor people on three critical fronts: security, empowerment, and opportunity. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Subject Social psychology.

Books By or Related to Sen from Ottawa U

Development as freedom / Amartya Sen. Sen, Amartya Kumar HB 95 .S446 2000

Poverty and famines : an essay on entitlement and deprivation / Amartya Sen.

HC 79 .F3 S46 1982 (Due 2010 april 7??)

Resources, values and development. Sen, Amartya Kuma

HD 82 .S46 1984

The standard of living / Amartya Sen and John Muellbauer ... [et al.] ; edited by Geoffrey Hawthor

HD 6978 .S46 1987

Welfare economics and the real world : acceptance paper \ by Amartya Sen. Sen, Amartya Kuma

HB 99.3 .S47 1986

The political economy of hunger : selected essays / edited by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen, and Athar TX 360.5 .P65 1995

L'économie est une science morale / Amartya Sen ; introduction de Marc Saint-Upéry. HB 72 .S432 2003

Growth economics: selected readings; edited by Amartya Se

HD 82 .S438 1970

Devleopment as Freedom:

HB 95 .S446 1999

Resources, values and development. Sen, Amartya Kumar

HD 82 .S46 1984

Levels of poverty : policy and change. Sen, Amartya Kumar

HC 59.72 .P6 S447 1980

Collective choice and social welfare [by] Amartya K. Sen. -- Sen, Amartya Kumar

Commodities and capabilities / Amartya Sen. Sen, Amartya Kumar HB 99.3 .S454 1985

Transforming unjust structures : the capability approach / edited by Severine Deneulin, Mathias Nebel and Nicholas Sagovsky

HB 99.3 .T73 2006

Capabilities and social justice : the political philosophy of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum / John Alexander, John M.

HB 523 .A43 2008

Readings in human development : concepts, measures and policies for a development paradigm / edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, A.K. Shiva Kumar ; [foreword by Amartya Sen].

HD 75 .R423 2005

2 chapters by sen, one joint authorship

Poverty and human rights : Sen's 'capability perspective' explored / Polly Vizard

HC 79 .P6 V59 2006

The following text doesn't mention Sen but on the dustjacket -t he whole thing is based on his idea of freedom:

he many dimensions of poverty / edited by Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silber HC 79 .P6 M355 2007

the following has a chapter"Open and CLosed Impartiality" Amartya Sen

Global responsibilities : who must deliver on human rights? / edited by Andrew Kuper - JC 571 .G5825 2005 OOPS - due 09 12-02

lobal justice and transnational politics : essays on the moral and political challenges of globalization / edited by Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin.

Publisher Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.

JA 71 .G58 2002 (the above includesw essays - "Weak Universalism" by Sen and Leif Wenar - Rawls. 2nd part "Strong Universalism" - Hbarmas, Luban, Nussbaum, Pogge - normative sources and possible types of cross-border comitments. 3rd part transnational politics and national identities - Habermas. mccarthy and kant, etc.

World hunger and morality / edited by William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette.

HD 9000.6 .W62 1996 Above has "Goods and People" by Sen and "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" by Peter Singer.

The political economy of development and underdevelopment / [edited by] Kenneth P. Jameson, Charles K. Wilber.

Publisher New York : McGraw-Hill, c1996. HD 82 .P546 1996 (Due Dec. 2)

Development studies : a reader / editor, Stuart Corbridge.

Publisher London ; New York : E. Arnold, 1995.

HD 75. D497 1995 - "Food and Freedom" 1989 by Sen

fty key thinkers on development / edited by David Simon

HD 87.55 .F53 2006

Capabilities equality : basic issues and problems / edited by Alexander Kaufman. HM 671 .C37 2006

HB 99.3 .S45 1970

What is the capability approach? : its core, rationale, partners and dangers / Des Gasper.

HM 571 .W67 v.428 2006

Amartya Sen's capability approach : theoretical insights and empirical applications / Wiebke Kuklys.

Publisher Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005. HB 846 .K85 2005 (based on a PhD thesis)

Development as freedom : contributions and shortcomings of Amartya Sen's development philosophy for feminist economics / Irene van Staveren and Des Gasper.

Publisher The Hague, Netherlands : Institute of Social Studies, 2002

HM 571 .W67 v.365 2002

Frontiers of development economics : the future in perspective / edited by Gerald M. Meier, Joseph E. Stiglitz - world bank and oxford HD 75 .F77 2001

Out of the margin : feminist perspectives on economics / edited by Edith Kuiper and Jolande Sap, with Susan Feiner, Notburga Ott and Zafiris Tzannatos.

HQ 1190 .O94 1995

Includes: Varieties of Deprivation: Comments on chapters by Pujol and Hutchinson / Amartya K. Sen

http://orbis.uottawa.ca/search~S0?/Xamartya%20sen&SORT=D/Xamartya%20sen&SORT=D&SUBKEY=amartya%20sen/51,137,137,B/frameset&FF=Xamartya%20sen&SORT=D&99,99,

Keen, David, 1958- Title The benefits of famine : a political economy of famine and relief in southwestern Sudan, 1983-1989 / David Keen. Publisher Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.

Location	Call #	Status
MRT General	HC 835 .Z9 F3476 1994	IN LIBRARY

Table of Contents
	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Overview					3
Ch. 2	Famine and Exploitation in Historical Perspective					18
Ch. 3	Victims and Beneficiaries: A Case Study of Famine as a Combination of Exploitative Processes					76
Ch. 4	Inadequacy of Relief: A "Policy Success" for Powerful Groups in Sudan?					129
Ch. 5	Inadequacy of Relief: The Role of International Donors					173
Ch. 6	Discussion and Conclusions					211
	Notes					239
	Bibliography					261
	Index					279

Description xvi, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index. Summary "David Keen argues that famines, such as that which devastated the Dinka of Sudan in the 1980s, often have powerful beneficiaries within the affected nation, including political elites and traders. Meanwhile, shortcomings in the manner of international intervention, while contributing to famine, may offer significant political and bureaucratic benefits for international donors. Famine is not necessarily an apocalyptic natural disaster: it may have functions as well as causes. Drawing on a range of historical information and the accounts of famine sufferers, aid providers, and government officials, Keen explains the causes of the Sudanese famine, extracting vital lessons about the future of effective famine relief." "Identifying those Sudanese interests that actively promoted famine and obstructed relief, Keen shows how the assets of the politically powerless Dinka were forcibly transferred to beneficiary groups. In a sense, and contrary to the emphasis of Amartya Sen, it was the Dinkas' wealth, rather than their poverty, which exposed them to famine in a context where they lacked political redress against exploitation. For the most part, international donors failed to counteract the processes leading to famine or to speak up on behalf of those who lacked political influence in their own society. At a time when the effectiveness of the U.N. and the international community in such crises is increasingly being questioned, this provocative work provides compelling evidence of flaws in current thinking about humanitarian intervention and in its practice."--BOOK JACKET.