Ethics of Global Development

Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvDavid A. Crocker,College Park) Crocker, David A. (University of Maryland

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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, policy-making, 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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-07-13
Mått152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor432
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521117388

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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.

'David Crocker's book opens up, in the most consistent manner, an area only imperfectly explored so far: the ethics of global development. It discusses whether there are duties of rich countries and individuals toward the poor. What is global justice? How fair is the existing trade system? What is the place of migration? As the world becomes more interdependent, these questions, generally discussed within the confines of the nation-state, will have to be addressed at a global level. David's book is a big step in that direction.' Branko Milanovic, World Bank and Carnegie Endowment, Washington