Economist Amartya Sen’s and philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach to economic development enjoys global attention, and there has been considerable interest in connections between it and pragmatism. This paper argues, first, that there are indeed strong, productive affinities between Sen’s and Nussbaum’s understanding of ‘capabilities’ in rethinking how economies are to be developed and measured, on the one hand, and John Dewey’s notion of ‘growth’ and applications of pragmatism to economics, by economists such as Thorstein Veblen, John Commons, and, more recently, Daniel Bromley, to rethink and to reconstruct their discipline, on the other. Second, the paper suggests that Dewey’s notion of ‘growth’ can do much to strengthen and to deepen Sen’s and Nussbaum’s “capabilities approaches” to economics. Third, it suggests that Dewey enriches notions of ‘science’ and ‘democracy’, which are largely underdeveloped in capabilities approaches.

经济学家阿玛蒂亚·森（Amartya Sen）和哲学家玛莎·努斯鲍姆（Martha Nussbaum）的能力发展方法受到了全球的关注，并且人们对它与实用主义之间的联系也产生了浓厚的兴趣。本文首先认为，一方面森和努斯鲍姆对“能力”的理解之间确实存在着强大的，生产性的亲和力，一方面，他们重新思考如何发展和衡量经济；而约翰·杜威的“增长”和应用概念也是如此。另一方面，索尔斯坦·韦布伦（Whorstein Veblen），约翰·Commons（John Commons）和最近的丹尼尔·布罗姆利（Daniel Bromley）等经济学家则对经济学进行了实用主义的反思和重构。其次，该论文表明，杜威的“增长”概念可以极大地加强和深化森和努斯鲍姆的“能力方法”对经济学的理解。第三，