David A. Crocker is Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is an officer of the Human Development and Capability Association, and was founder and a former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA).
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I. Development Ethics: 2. Agreements, controversies and challenges
3. Ethics and development theory-practice
Part II. The Capability Approach: Ethical Foundations: 4. Critique of alternatives
5. Agency, functioning and capability
6. Evaluating capabilities an functionings
Part III. Strengthening and Applying the Capability Approach: 7. Agency, responsibility and consumption
8. Hunger, capability and agency-oriented development
Part IV. Deliberative Democracy, Participation and Globalization: 9. The capability approach and deliberative democracy
10. Deliberative participation and local development
11. Development ethics, democracy and globalization
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Index of subjects.
