Desventuras de un pobre en el mundo económico : la economía ortodoxa, sus límites en el análisis de la pobreza y la propuesta de Amartya Sen

Abstract

This article uses e Iiterary narration to show how the orthodox or traditional theory, specially the thought of the neoclassic school, leaves of side the poverty concept, when considering the welfare like the simple obtaining of utilities; in addition the proposal of the economist Amartya Sen is presented, who postulates the theory of the human capacities. This theory establishes like important everything what a person is able to make or be to obtain to her objectives and their aims, thus allowing, to include and to extend the vision of the poverty. In the end one concludes that, although the poverty must be studied by the Economy, this one has been claim an impossibility to raise solutions so that that diminishes and, to a great extent, it must to the restrictions that the orthodox theory presents.