Sen’s work fundamentally broadens the scope of information on which determinations of social value can be based, suggesting potential metrics for value creation that go beyond dollar-denomi- nated consumer value and producer value. The restoration of sight is the restoration of a basic human capability in a way that the sale of an ice cream cone simply is not. Such enterprises, and the social entrepreneurs who create them, derive their impacts not from mar- ket exchange, but rather from the inherent value of the human lives that their actions help to preserve or enhance.