Creating Capabilities The Human Development Approach

Name: Creating Capabilities The Human Development Approach
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ISBN: 9780674072350

ISBN-10: 0674072359

ISBN-13: 9780674072350

Edition: 2011

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world’s billions of individuals are really managing?In this powerful critique, Martha Nussbaum argues that our dominant theories of development have given us policies that ignore our most basic human needs for dignity and self-respect. For the past twenty-five years, Nussbaum has been working on an alternate model to assess human development: the Capabilities Approach. She and her colleagues begin with the simplest…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.