The main aim of this book is to develop and implement an innovative tool: exchange-entitlement mapping, or E-mapping for short. This tool enables us to look at the economic and social opportunities to develop human capabilities for different groups of individuals, depending on their group identity such as age, ethnicity or gender.

"Aurelie Charles's new book is a major new contribution to social economics, tying together recent conceptual developments related to capabilities, subjective well-being, identities and norms with original empirical research on maquiladora workers in post-NAFTA Mexico. This is the sort of analytically-grounded yet realistically-engaged research to which all social and development economists should be aspiring." - Martha Starr, associate professor of Economics at American University

Autorentext
Dr. Aurelie Charles is lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Bath.

Inhalt
Introduction * Part I. Individual Well-being: current debate of thoughts * Chapter 1. Capability Approach vs. Happiness Approach * 1.1. Introduction * 1.2. Capability Approach: Theoretical Settings: Empirical works relating to the CA * 1.3. Happiness Approach: Utilitarian tradition: Current debate * 1.4. Conclusion * Chapter 2. Identity Approach * 2.1. Introduction *2.2. Identity, norms and ideals * 2.3. Multiple identities * 2.4. Conclusion * Part II. E-mapping and Entitlement Failures * Chapter 3. Exchange Entitlement mapping * 3.1. Introduction * 3.2. Exchange Entitlement mapping under the Capability Approach * 3.3. Endowments: commodities and achieved functionings * 3.4. Conclusion * Chapter 4. External Shocks on E-mapping * 4.1. Introduction * 4.2. Interdependent entitlements * 4.3. External Shocks and Entitlement failures * 4.4. Conclusion * Part III. Case study: the identity of maquiladora workers * Chapter 5. Social entitlements * 5.1. Introduction * 5.2. The Makings of the Mexican Culture * 5.3. Current Picture of Mexican Society * 5.4. Household survey on Perceived Entitlements * 5.5. Conclusion * Chapter 6. Economic entitlements * 6.1. Introduction * 6.2. Fairness, Norms and the Marginal Cost of Labour * 6.3. Trends in maquiladora labour market * 6.4. Contentious Implication * 6.5. Conclusion