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#capabilities-approach
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Do capabilities measure a good life better than happiness surveys do?
The donors I work with on accessible buildings want outcomes, and increasingly the outcome they ask for is "satisfaction": did people report being happier after the ramp was built? I find this maddening, and Amartya Sen's work explains why. Two of his…
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The step or the leg? What the social model of disability really claims
The social model is often caricatured as saying bodies do not matter. Read properly, it is a claim about where responsibility lies, and its sharpest critics are disabled scholars themselves.
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