| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Agreements, controversies, and challenges -- Ethics and development theory-practice -- Critique of alternatives -- Agency, functioning, and capability -- Evaluating capabilities and functionings -- Agency, responsibility, and consumption -- Hunger, capability, and agency-oriented development -- The capability approach and deliberative democracy -- Deliberative participation in local development -- Development ethics, democracy, and globalization. |
| Summary |
"Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development studies, policymaking, and practice, David A. Crocker analyzes and evaluates Amartya Sen's philosophy of development in relation to alternative ethical outlooks. He argues that Sen's recent turn to robust ideals of human agency and democracy improves on both Sen's earlier emphasis on 'capabilities and functionings' and Martha Nussbaum's version of the capability orientation. This agency-focused capability approach is then extended and strengthened by applying it to the challenges of consumerism and hunger, the development responsibilities of affluent individuals and nations, and the dilemmas of globalization. Throughout the book the author argues for the importance of more inclusive and deliberative democratic institutions." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008007230-d.html. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Social planning -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Social planning. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crocker, David A. Ethics of global development. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521885195 (DLC) 2008007230 (OCoLC)183264831 |
| ISBN |
9780511415463 (electronic book) |
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051141546X (electronic book) |
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9780511410864 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions) |
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0511410867 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions) |
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9780511412585 (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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0511412584 (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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9780511413193 (eBook ; ebrary) |
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051141319X (eBook ; ebrary) |
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0521885191 (cloth) |
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9780521885195 (cloth) |
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9780521885195 (hardback) |
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