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Poverty, Work, and Freedom

Download or Read eBook Poverty, Work, and Freedom PDF written by David P. Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Poverty, Work, and Freedom
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 1139446312
ISBN-13 : 9781139446310
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Book Synopsis Poverty, Work, and Freedom by : David P. Levine

Book excerpt: The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. In the spirit of the capabilities approach, the book argues that poverty refers not to a lack of things but to the lack of the ability to live life in a particular way. The authors argue that the poor are those who cannot live a life that is discovered and created rather than already known. Avoiding poverty, then, means having the capacity and opportunity for creative living. The authors argue that the capacity to do skilled work plays a particularly important role in creative living, and suggest that the development of the ability to do skilled work is a vital part of solving the problem of poverty.


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