Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach *EPUB
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 and self-respect. For the past twenty-five years, Nussbaum has been working on an alternate model to assess human development: the Capabilities Approach. She and her colleagues begin with the simplest of questions: What is each person actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them? The Capabilities Approach to human progress has until now been expounded only in specialized works. Creating Capabilities, however, affords anyone interested in issues of human development a wonderfully lucid account of the structure and practical implications of an alternate model. It demonstrates a path to justice for both humans and nonhumans, weighs its relevance against other philosophical stances, and reveals the value of its universal guidelines even as it acknowledges cultural difference. In our era of unjustifiable inequity, Nussbaum shows how―by attending to the narratives of individuals and grasping the daily impact of policy―we can enable people everywhere to live full and creative lives. Read more
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Why Must Read Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach?
Professor Nussbaum offers an admirably clear approach that could go a long way to solving our USA race problems. Having just witnessed the police murder in North Carolina, it’s clear we need a strong anti-racial position that is also strong on law and order. The law and order element has to have two sides of a difficult coin to divide: (1) one side where the police stop crime and murder perpetrated against the poor ad blacks, out of which the violent criminals often comes; (2) of equal weight in practice, a law and order which insists on the arrest and conviction of police who comment murder, like what in fact we can all see and hear was like a gangland slaying and we need a racial solution that doesn't botch the trials and penalties on police. If the police are there to uphold the law, they had better be spotless in complying with the law. It's like pedophile priests: how can they hear confessions and dispense the sacraments when they themselves are vile in the eyes of everyone? ,Since anyone who did a cursory perusal of Happy Poet critiques, I'll save you the time so you can think about what Nussbaum's articulating from what is on these free Amazon pages, including "Open book," about the aughor, and reviews---Dr. Bart Gruzalski, Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University, Boston. Remarkably, the elements of a complete practical AND theoretical solution are in Martha Nussbaum's book "Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach."
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