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Creating Capabilities

Paperback • 2013 • English

Creating Capabilities

By Martha C. Nussbaum

2 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780674072350

Publisher

The Belknap Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Creating Capabilities

Format

Paperback

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