"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

This is the first biography of a world-famous pioneering development economist, Sir Hans W. Singer, who is better known throughout the developing world than any other economist, living or dead. It gives a detailed account of the way in which the 'twists of fate' led him to becoming a leading...