Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order

by David P. Levine, S. Abu Turab Rizvi, S Abu Turab Rizvi

Book Overview

The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. In the spirit of the capabilities approach, the book argues that poverty refers not to a lack of things but to the lack of the ability to live life in a particular way. The authors argue that the poor are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521184142
• ISBN13: 9780521184144
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"