* Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. † Pulmonary Division, Saint Thomas Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee. ‡ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, 1 affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. of China. § Department of Cell and Developmental Biology,...

The paper will appear in a slightly edited form in a special issue of Feminist Economics on the work of Amartya Sen, in 2003. The authors are grateful to the editors of the special issue and to the referees for their comments and guidance. The Institute of Social Studies is Europe's longest-established centre of higher education and research in development studies. Postgraduate teaching program...

Sen’s critique of the homo economicus conception of choice asserts that agents who ‘displace’ their goals, and instead choose on the basis of others’, are not therefore irrational. I first defend Sen against the objection that violations of “self-goal choice” undermine coherent deliberation. My critique of Sen then introduces the notion of ‘negative goals’ and shows that the process of adopting...

Jorge Buzaglo’s writings in recent years on the economic development of poor and middleincome countries has been involved with shifting our perspective ‘from the growth of material production and consumption to a different type of growth, namely human growth... [I]n the language of capabilities introduced by Amartya Sen, human development is the process of increasing the domain of human capabil...

Draft: please do not cite without permission. When poverty measures reflect the experiences of poor people, then this empowers those working to reduce poverty to do so more effectively and efficiently. The literature on Multidimensional Poverty Measures has surged forward in the last decade. This paper describes the broad directions of change, then presents a new and very simple measurement met...

7. 1 Introduction Development is a multidimensional concept incorporating diverse social, economic, cultural and political dimensions and economic growth, though necessary, is not sufficient in itself to bring about development in this broad sense. According to Nobel Prize Laureate Amartya Sen (e.g. Sen (1985, 1999)), the basic purpose of development is to enlarge people's choices so that they ...

Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience research suggest that different preference orderings and choices may emerge depending on which brain circuits are activated. This contradicts the microeconomic postulate that one complete preference ordering provides sufficient information to predict choice and behaviour. Amartya Sen argued before how the emergence of a complete preference ordering may ...

OBJECTIVES Pathological complete response has shown a better prognosis for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer after preoperative chemoradiotherapy. However, correlations between post-chemoradiotherapy clinical factors and pathologic complete response are not well confirmed. The aim of the current study was to identify post-chemoradiotherapy clinical factors that could serve as indicat...

Considerable attention has been recently paid to the use of surrogate endpoints in clinical research. We deal with the situation where the two endpoints are both right censored. While proportional hazards analyses are typically used for this setting, their use leads to several complications. In this article, we propose the use of the accelerated failure time model for analysis of surrogate endp...

Ever since Sen (1993) criticized the notion of internal consistency of choice, there exists a widespread perception that the standard rationalizability approach to the theory of choice has difficulties in coping with the existence of external norms. We introduce a concept of norm-conditional rationalizability and show that external norms can be made compatible with the methods underlying the ra...