Sen is not a capability theoristFootnote^†

† The paper has been presented at the PHARE Seminar of Economic Philosophy (Paris, May 2014), at the 18th meeting of the European Society of the History of Economic Thought (Lausanne, May 2014), and at the 2nd International Conference for Philosophy and Economics (Strasbourg, October 2014).

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