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Creating Capabilities - The Human Development Approach (Paperback)
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Creating Capabilities - The Human Development Approach (Paperback)
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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 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 development a wonderfully lucid account of the
structure and practical implications of an alternate model. It
demonstrates a path to justice for both humans and nonhumans,
weighs its relevance against other philosophical stances, and
reveals the value of its universal guidelines even as it
acknowledges cultural difference. In our era of unjustifiable
inequity, Nussbaum shows how-by attending to the narratives of
individuals and grasping the daily impact of policy-we can enable
people everywhere to live full and creative lives.
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