LEADER 03612nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910456503403321 005 20211223121418.0 010 $a0-674-06120-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061200 035 $a(CKB)2550000000043008 035 $a(OCoLC)753976782 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10488676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535494 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11344559 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535494 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523354 035 $a(PQKB)10229552 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300953 035 $a(DE-B1597)178248 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061200 035 $a(PPN)201894769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300953 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10488676 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000043008 100 $a20101027d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreating capabilities$b[electronic resource] $ethe human development approach /$fMartha C. Nussbaum 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-07235-9 311 $a0-674-05054-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA woman seeking justice -- The central capabilities -- A necessary counter-theory -- Fundamental entitlements -- Cultural diversity -- The nation and global justice -- Philosophical influences -- Capabilities and contemporary issues. 330 $aIf 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. 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aWomen's rights 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aWomen's rights. 676 $a303.3/72 700 $aNussbaum$b Martha Craven$f1947-$0144658 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456503403321 996 $aCreating capabilities$945799 997 $aUNINA