Capabilities, power, and institutions : toward a more critical development ethics

ed. by Stephen L. Esquith and Fred Gifford

"A collection of essays that extend, criticize, and reformulate the capability approach to human development, originally formulated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, in order to better understand the importance of power, especially institutional power" - provided by publisher

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Year of publication:	c 2010
Other Persons:	Esquith, Stephen Lawrence (contributor) ; Gifford, Fred (contributor)
Publisher:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State Univ. Press
Subject:	Entwicklung \| Economic development \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change \| Entwicklungspolitik \| Development policy \| Sozialethik \| Social ethics \| Soziale Gerechtigkeit \| Social justice \| Politische Ethik \| Political ethics \| Institutionenökonomik \| Institutional economics \| Fähigkeit \| Individuum \| Freiheit \| Entwicklungsmodell \| Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	VIII, 206 S. 24 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 9 Beitr. Instrumental freedoms and human capabilities / Sabina Alkire The missing squirm factor in Amartya Sen's capability approach / A. Allan Schmid Institutions, inequality,and well-being: distributive determinants of capabilities realization / Daniel Little Development ethics through the lenses of caring, gender, and human security / Des Gasper, Thanh-Dam Truong A methodologically pragmatist approach to development ethics / Asunción Lera St. Clair Social development, capabilities, and the contradictions of (capitalist) development / Shelley Feldman The struggle for local autonomy in a multiethnic society: constructing alternatives with indigenous epistemologies / David Barkin Capabilities, consequentialism, and critical consciousness / Paul B. Thompson Development and globalization: the ethical challenges / Nigel Dower.
ISBN:	0-271-03661-3 ; 978-0-271-03661-8
Classification:	Politische Philosophie
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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