[ Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach ] By Nussbaum, Martha Craven( Author ) on Mar-31-2011 [ Hardcover ] [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2011] Martha C. Nussbaum - Hardcover

Martha C. Nussbaum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8178243296 ISBN 13: 9788178243290

Publisher: Permanent Black, 2011

Synopsis

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 alternative model to assess human development: the capabilities approach she and her colleagues begin with the simplest of questions: what is each person actually able to do and to be? what real opportunities are available to them? the capabilities approach to human progress has until now been expounded only in specialized works creating capabilities, however, affords anyone interested in issues of human developm

Edition details

• Publisher: Permanent Black
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8178243296
• ISBN 13: 9788178243290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256