A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ASSESSMENT OF WELL-BEING BASED ON SEN ’ S FUNCTIONING APPROACH

The aim of this paper is to deal with some methodological issues related to the multidimensional analysis of well-being from the theoretical perspective suggested by Amartya Sen. Widely recognised as one of the more satisfying and complete approaches to well-being analysis, Sen’s capability approach has found relatively few empirical applications up to now, mainly for its strong informational and methodological requirements. In this paper I try to make some progress towards the possibility of realising a multidimensional assessment of Sen’s concept of well-being with the use of the fuzzy sets theory ; the methodology suggested is also tested in the evaluative space of functionings, with an empirical application referred to Italy.

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