Creating Capabilities : The Human Development Approach

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Title Creating Capabilities: Read to understand human development.

Recommendation: This book offers a new perspective on human development through the Capabilities Approach, which argues that true progress should be measured by an individual's ability to live a fulfilling life with dignity and self-respect. Nussbaum provides a lucid account of this approach, offering practical implications and highlighting the relevance of the Capabilities Approach in different cultures. This book is recommended for anyone interested in issues concerning human development, social justice and policy-making.

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Creating Capabilities : The Human Development Approach

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ISBN: 9780674050549
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Related Collections: Politics, Philosophy, Sociology
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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 the Capabilities Approach. She and her colleagues begin with the simplest of 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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Title Creating Capabilities: Read to understand human development.

Recommendation: This book offers a new perspective on human development through the Capabilities Approach, which argues that true progress should be measured by an individual's ability to live a fulfilling life with dignity and self-respect. Nussbaum provides a lucid account of this approach, offering practical implications and highlighting the relevance of the Capabilities Approach in different cultures. This book is recommended for anyone interested in issues concerning human development, social justice and policy-making.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.