1. Introduction. Capabilities and Society: Renegotiating Social Justice in Times of Crisis
Hans-Uwe Otto, Holger Ziegler, Spyridon Pantazis, Antoanneta Potsi
Part I: Evaluating public policy – Capability Perspectives
2. The ambivalence of social policies and the challenge of Human Development: A proposal for assessing their impact against the capability approach
Jean-Michel Bonvin
3. Corrosive disadvantages and intersectionality: empirical evidence on multidimensional inequality accross youth in Europe
Alberta Spreafico, Agnese Peruzzi, Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti
4. Capabilities and working lives
Benedicte Zimmermann
Part II: Education and life situations of young people
5. Children’s rights in times of austerity
Zoe Clark
6. Children’s well-being in times of crisis in PIIGS countries: the Capability Approach as a multidimensional approach to deprivation
Antoanneta Potsi, Antonella D’Agostino, Caterina Giusti
7. Capabilities as the informational basis for gender equality policy in higher education
Melanie Walker, Sonja Loots
8. The University and sustainable human development
Des Gasper
Part III: Conceptual Concerns of Human Development
9. A brief history of liberty and its lessons
Philip Pettit
10. Some reflections on capability and the Republican Freedom as a response to Philip Pettit’s Address on the Martha Nussbaum Symposium
Mozaffar Qizilbash
11. Anger: Weakness, Payback, Down-Ranking
Martha Nussbaum
Part IV: Policies of and Challenges to Human Development in Times of Crisis
12. Inclusive Human Progress: from structural vulnerabilities to social cohesion
Astra Bonini
13. Confronting Inequality and Corruption: Agency, Empowerment, and Democratic Development
David Crocker
14. Public choice and the CA: Self-interest, altruisme and their consequences for sustainable development groups
Jürgen Volkert and Raimund Krumm
15. Innovation and Justice: contributions of the capabilities approach to a 21st century, transformative perspective on innovation
Rafael Ziegler
16. The capabilities approach, the environment and relational values. Why we should conceive of the environment as co-constituents of capabilities
Antje Brock