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Commodities and Capabilities

Dan Usher, Amartya Sen

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1. Interest, Well-being and Advantage. 2. Commodities and Their Use. 3. Utility, Desire and Happiness. 4. Functioning and Well-being. 5. Valuation and Ranking. 6. Information and Interpretation. 7. Well-being and Advantage. Appendix A: Some International Comparisons. Appendix B: Well-being and Sex Bias in India. Subject Index. Name Index.

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1. Interest, Well-being and Advantage. 2. Commodities and Their Use. 3. Utility, Desire and Happiness. 4. Functioning and Well-being. 5. Valuation and Ranking. 6. Information and Interpretation. 7. Well-being and Advantage. Appendix A: Some International Comparisons. Appendix B: Well-being and Sex Bias in India. Subject Index. Name Index.

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1. Interest, Well-being and Advantage. 2. Commodities and Their Use. 3. Utility, Desire and Happiness. 4. Functioning and Well-being. 5. Valuation and Ranking. 6. Information and Interpretation. 7. Well-being and Advantage. Appendix A: Some International Comparisons. Appendix B: Well-being and Sex Bias in India. Subject Index. Name Index.

Key concepts: Economics, Happiness, Ranking (information retrieval), Valuation (finance), Index (typography), Interpretation (philosophy), Subject (documents), Positive economics

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