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Ethos Issue 3, Oct 2007
Poverty, Capabilities and Social
Justice
Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund
Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago,
appointed in the Law School, Philosophy Department, and Divinity
School. She is the current President of the Human Development
and Capability Association. Her most recent books are Frontiers
of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Belknap
Press, 2006) and The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence,
and India’s Future (Belknap Press, 2007).
| NOTES |
| 01. |
Dreze, Jean and Sen, Amartya, India:
Development and Participation, 2nd ed. (USA: Oxford
University Press, 2002). |
| 02. |
For a discussion of how minimum thresholds
and implementation priorities might be set in accordance
to a nation’s resources and economic conditions,
see Nussbaum, Martha, "The Costs of Tragedy: Some
Moral Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis," in Cost-Benefit
Analysis, ed. Adler, M. D. and Posner, E. (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2001). |
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