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4 - Measuring the Meta-Capability of Agency

A Theoretical Basis for Creating a Responsibility Indicator

from Part I - The Need for New Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2018

By
Mathias Nebel  and
Ma. Teresa Herrera Rendón Nebel
Edited by
Flavio Comim ,
Shailaja Fennell  and
P. B. Anand
Flavio Comim
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Shailaja Fennell
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
P. B. Anand
Affiliation:
University of Bradford
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New Frontiers of the Capability Approach , pp. 82 - 115
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