Against Injustice

Reiko Gotoh is Full Professor in the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Paul Dumouchel is Full Professor in the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel; Part I: 1. Economics, law and ethics Amartya Sen; 2. Neorepublicanism and Sen's economic, legal and ethical desiderata Philip Pettit; 3. The Prajâpati test: response to Amartya Sen Marcel Hénaff; Part II: 4. The power of a democratic public Philip Pettit; 5. The challenge of gender justice Martha C. Nussbaum; 6. Gift, market, and social justice Marcel Hénaff; 7. Justice and public reciprocity Reiko Gotoh; 8. Reasoning with preferences? John Broome; 9. Conceptions of individual rights and freedom in welfare economics: a re-examination Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu; Part III: 10. On synthetic indices of multidimensional well-being: health and income inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom Andrea Brandolini; 11. Assessing children's capabilities: operationalising metrics for evaluating music programs to poor children in Brazilian primary schools Flavio Comim; 12. The search for socially sustainable development Jean-Luc Dubois; Part IV: 13. Response Amartya Sen; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'What is missing in current economics, but takes centre stage in Against Injustice, is Amartya Sen's view that commitment goes beyond sympathetic self-interestedness. Commitment matters, in practical terms, because it binds together organizations and legal systems. It is what makes them work. Since almost all economic activity takes place either within organizations or under the legal system, this book, based as it is on Sen's world view, takes on the most important issues in economics today.' George Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley, and Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001