This author's liberal paradox suggested that requiring Pareto efficiency of voting schemes was irrational, and he offered relaxing transitivity to suggest voting systems almost good enough for Arrow's impossibility theorem.
This author determined that the concept of rights ought to be replaced with a concept of capabilities in his essay "Equality of What," outlining some of his work with Martha Nussbaum. That approach also features prominently in his Inequality Reexamined. This author's liberal paradox suggested that requiring Pareto efficiency of voting schemes was irrational, and he offered relaxing transitivity to suggest voting systems almost good enough for Arrow's impossibility theorem. His best known work illustrates that food distribution mechanisms were often larger factors than food quantity in causing starvation. For 10 points, name this author of Poverty and Famines and Collective Choice and Social Welfare.
This author determined that the concept of rights ought to be replaced with a concept of capabilities in his essay "Equality of What," outlining some of his work with Martha Nussbaum.
Amartya {Sen}