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Creating Capabilities The Human Development Approach

Martha C. Nussbaum

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...

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It was discussed as a book about development economics with a philosophical critique of standard models. It was also described as proposing a 'capability approach' to measuring living standards.

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And it's called Creating Capabilities, the Human Development Approach.

— Episode: 26. The Health of Nations

Episode: 26. The Health of Nations

It was discussed as a book about development economics with a philosophical critique of standard models. It was also described as proposing a 'capability approach' to measuring living standards.

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And it's called Creating Capabilities, the Human Development Approach.

Martha Nussbaum is the author of a new book called Creating Capabilities, The Human Development Approach.

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