David A. Crocker

Ethics of Global Development

Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis and evaluation of Amartya Sen's 'capability approach' to development ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117388
• ISBN-10: 0521117380
• Artikelnr.: 26203899

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
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
Index of names
Index of subjects.