Valuing Freedoms: Sen's Capability Approach and Poverty Reduction

by Sabina Alkire

Book Overview

Sabina Alkire shows how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen's capability approach can be coherently--and practically--put to work in poverty reduction activities. Sen argues that economic development should expand "valuable" freedoms. Alkire probes how we identify what is valuable. Foundational issues are addressed critically--dimensions of development, practical reason, culture, basic needs--drawing on Thomist authors who give central place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199283311
• ISBN13: 9780199283316
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"