{"product_id":"human-rights-and-the-capabilities-approach-9781138814523","title":"Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human development) stand out as two approaches that are concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals, their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human rights and capabilities share these common commitment to human priorities, they are distinct concepts and fields that have developed separately. The aim of this volume is to explore the relationship between them in order to enhance the understanding of both as theoretical paradigms, as public policy frameworks and as approaches to development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book includes contributions from some of the leading scholars in the two fields of capabilities approach and human rights. It covers the essential aspects of this relationship: addressin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \u003cem\u003eAmartya Sen \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 1. Introduction: The Capability approach and human rights\u003cem\u003e Polly Vizard, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Diane Elson \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 2. Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique \u003cem\u003eMartha Nussbaum \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 3. Responsible Pluralism, Capabilities and Human Rights \u003cem\u003eJay Drydyck \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 4. Economics and Human Rights: A Non-Conversation \u003cem\u003eSanjay Reddy \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 5. The Metrics of Human Rights:Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach \u003cem\u003eSakiko Fukuda-Parr \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 6. ‘Operationalising’ the capability approach as a basis for equality and human rights monitoring in 21st century Britain \u003cem\u003eTania Burchardt and Polly Vizard \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 7. Millennium Development Goals and human rights: Far away, so close? \u003cem\u003eSimone Cecchini and Francesco Notti \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 8. Right to information and local governance institutions: An exploration \u003cem\u003eP.B. Anand \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 9. Financial Regulation, Capabilities and human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: the Case of Housing \u003cem\u003eRadhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, and James Heintz \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 10. Towards a Human Rights Accountability Index \u003cem\u003ePhilip Alston \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 11. Poverty and Human Rights: Building on the Capability Approach \u003cem\u003eSiddiqur Rahman Osmani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769074549079,"sku":"9781138814523","price":53.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-rights-and-the-capabilities-approach-9781138814523","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}