ABSTRACT
Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his contribution to welfare economics. The core arguments of this work are made in Inequality Reexamined. The book is a text that has served as an important foundation for further debate. Sen's main argument has not changed and the clarifications and extensions he has subsequently made have further strengthened his arguments and the impact of the Capability Approach. Sen with Martha Nussbaum and others founded the Human Development and Capabilities Association which acts as a forum for critiques and improvements to current debates regarding the Capability Approach. The association includes scholars from many different fields of enquiry including academics and policy-makers. The association focuses on work in the field of human development to which the Capability Approach is central. This approach has been game changing in the academic analysis of inequality, development and human agency and has fuelled wider debates about the purpose of development.
