Reiko Gotoh is Professor of Philosophy in Economics and Institute for Advance Academic Research at Teikyo University and Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. She holds a Ph.D. from Hitotsubashi University. Her research field is Philosophy in Economics, Normative Economics, Reconstruction of Welfare States. Her recent English publications are The Ethics and Economics of the Capability Approach, 2021, Springer; “What the Welfare State Left Behind--Securing the Capability to Move for the Vulnerable--,” Asian Economic Policy Review, 18-1, 2022 (with R. Kambayashi) “Securing Basic Well-being for All,” Review of Social Economy, 76, 4 (with N. Yoshihara); Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (co-edited), Social Bonds as Freedom, Berghahn Books (co-edited). She has several Japanese books including The Capability Approach, Iwanami-shoten. Economic Philosophy of Well-being, Minerva Shobo, Economic Philosophy of Justice: Rawls and Sen, Toyo-keizai Inc., 2002. Amartya Sen: Economics & Ethics, Jikkyo Shuppan, 2001 (co-authored).