Martha Nussbaum: From Justice to Emotion - Six Important Issues that are Ignored by Economists

Martha Nussbaum is a distinguished philosopher. Together with Amartya Sen, she has developed the famous "Capability Approach" to economics of welfare. Today, she feels that the insights of philosophy are by-and-large ignored by economists. In this excerpt from a lecture held at Frankfurt, she lists six contributions that economists should take more seriously. Mehr