From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 2)

Julio Boltvinik is Professor at Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México. He was member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and member of the Chamber of Deputies in the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress from September 2003 to August 2006. Since 1995, he has written a weekly column called “Moral Economy” in La Jornada, a critical national daily newspaper.

• IntroductionPART I: Negative and Positive Bases of the New Paradigm1. Negative Bases: A Synthesis of the Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty (CPEP)2. Positive Bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology I – Work and the Human Essence3. Positive Bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology II – Human Essence and History4. Two Tests of Marx’s Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA)5. Positive Bases of the New Paradigm II: Concepts and Theories of Human Needs6. Comparative Analysis of Human-Needs' TheoriesPART II: The New Paradigm: Perspectives for its Development7. A New Approach to Poverty and Human Flourishing8. Development Challenges to the New Approach to Poverty and Human Flourishing9. Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow's and the Subjective Well-being Currents of Thought10. Thomson, Gill, and Goodson's Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: Challenging the Flourishing/Well-being approachesFinal remarks