Acknowledgment Whose hand and tongue is capable To fulfil the obligations of thanks to Him? – Sa'di I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me in the completion of this work. Especially I am highly indebted to my advisor, Atish Dabholkar, for his guidance and stimulating suggestions throughout the work. I would also like to thank all my collaborators, Ashoke Sen, Norihiro I...

though they bear no responsibility for any of the data or conclusions. The authors thank Olav Sorenson for providing data regarding the location of biotechnology firms and Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Allen Scott for comments and encouragement.

1State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems and Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 2Department of Mechanics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 3Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanics in Energy Engineering, Shanghai University, Shangh...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 4 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ...

This paper investigates how Amartya Sen’s capability approach can be applied to conceptualize and assess gender inequality in Western societies. I first argue against the endorsement of a definitive list of capabilities and instead defend a procedural approach to the selection of capabilities by proposing five criteria. This procedural account is then used to generate a list of capabilities for...

The year 2006 should not be allowed to pass without at least a quiet celebration that this is the first year in human history when—across almost all the world—women can expect to enjoy a longer life expectancy than men. That the trend is moving in this direction will probably be confirmed this week in the 2006 world health report. In its world health report of 2002, the World Health Organizatio...

The limits of the utilitarian approach have led to a search for different notions of welfare. The income approach to well-being, in fact, doesn’t account for the diversity in human beings and for the heterogeneities of contingent circumstances. Amartya Sen, looking for broader notions of well-being, has developed an approach focused on the freedom of individuals to pursue their own project of l...

Introduction Amartya Sen occupies a unique position among modern economists. He is an outstanding economic theorist, a world authority on social choice and welfare economics; he is a leading figure in development economics, carrying out path-breaking work on appraising the effectiveness of investment in poor countries and, more recently, on the economic analysis of famines. He has greatly influ...

Professor of Surgery, Calcutta Medical College. The following table and notes are framed 011 the same principles and plan as similar statements for previous years which have appeared in this Journal. I shall, therefore, place the data on record without preface. I have much pleasure in acknowledging the willing and intelligent assistance I have obtained from Assistant Surgeon Khagendra Natii Sen...