Title: Wellbeing, justice and development ethics /
Authors: Deneulin, Séverine, 1974-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economic development Moral and ethical aspects; Social justice; Welfare economics.; Economic development Social aspects Latin America.; Social justice Latin America.; Welfare economics Latin America.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
Abstract: The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either socialism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a history of movements for social justice - the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and promising ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people's wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. Comprehensive, practical and nuanced in its treatment of the capability approach, this highly original volume gives students, researchers and professionals in the field of development an innovative framing of the capability approach as a 'language' for action and provides specific examples of how it has made a difference.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Background -- Aims -- Scope -- Structure -- 1.Development and ethics -- A development story from Peru -- Development: ends and means -- Development ethics -- Ethics and economics -- 2.Living well: wellbeing and agency -- Words and grammar of the capability approach -- A normative language to assess situations -- The Multidimensional Poverty Index -- The Dominican National Human Development Report -- Interpreting the language -- Conception of the person -- Purpose of the language -- The capability approach and the wellbeing turn -- 3.Acting justly: relations and responsibility -- A capability view of justice -- From wellbeing to justice -- Justice and public reasoning -- A normative language to transform situations -- A partial theory of justice -- Diagnosing unjust structures -- Reasoning and the common good -- Acting justly and living well -- 4.Assessing and transforming social realities -- Using the language --