Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Book Overview

This is a primer on the Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues that much humanitarian policy today violates basic human values; instead, she offers a unique means of redirecting government and development policy toward helping each of us lead a full and creative life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050541
• ISBN13: 9780674050549
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"