The article "A Reliability-Based Capability Approach," 38 Risk Anal. 410 (2018), by Professor Colleen Murphy and co-authors Armin Tabandeh and Paolo Gardoni, has been reviewed in Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots).
Reviewer and University of Illinois College of Law professor Robin Kar wrote:
"Most proponents of cost-benefit analysis nevertheless suggest that when it comes to agency decision-making, no better and feasible alternative currently exists. Whether that is true depends on what the alternatives are. I have recently found A Reliability-Based Capability Approach useful in this regard. I believe it offers the right building blocks to articulate an alternative, capabilities approach to agency decision-making that may prove useful in a wide range of domestic policy contexts."
Read the full review.