Affiliated Conference
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Capabilities and Education
April 23 - 24, 2010
This conference seeks to link the “Human Development Approach” to the recent literature on the economics, neuroscience, and psychology of human development in order to enrich both fields. The conference will foster a broader notion of capability formation than just formal education or cognition, which has been the focus of the Human Development Approach. It will adopt a life cycle perspective on capability expression and formation. The aim of the conference is to integrate recent advances in understanding how capabilities are produced into the Human Development Approach and to study the implications of the revised research program for law and public policy.
Keynote Address: Amartya Sen, Harvard University (Economics and Philosophy)
This conference is sponsored by:
The Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values, The University of Chicago Law School
The Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, The University of Chicago
The American Bar Foundation
The Spencer Foundation
Conference Organizers: James Heckman, Martha Nussbaum and Robert Pollak
Student Coordinator: Alexandra P. Kolod
Schedule (PDF)