Capabilities, Power, and Institutions - Toward a More Critical Development Ethics

About the author

Stephen L. Esquith is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University.Fred Gifford is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Specialization in Ethics and Development.

Summary

A collection of essays that extend, criticize, and reformulate the capability approach to human development, originally formulated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, in order to better understand the importance of power, especially institutional power.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stephen L. Esquith (Editor), Stephen L. (Professor of Philosophy Esquith (Editor), Esquith Stephen L. (Editor), Fred Gifford (Editor), Fred (Profesor of Philosophy Gifford (Editor), Gifford Fred (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2010
• EAN: 9780271036618
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03661-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, Linguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, Development Studies