Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Institutions and Urgency
Stephen L. Esquith
1. Instrumental Freedoms and Human Capabilities
Sabina Alkire
2. The Missing Squirm Factor in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach
A. Allan Schmid
3. Institutions, Inequality, and Well-Being: Distributive Determinants of Capabilities Realization
Daniel Little
4. Development Ethics Through the Lenses of Caring, Gender, and Human Security
Des Gasper and Thanh-Dam Truong
5. A Methodologically Pragmatist Approach to Development Ethics
Asuncioń Lera St. Clair
6. Social Development, Capabilities, and the Contradictions of (Capitalist) Development
Shelley Feldman
7. The Struggle for Local Autonomy in a Multiethnic Society: Constructing Alternatives with Indigenous Epistemologies
David Barkin
8. Capabilities, Consequentialism, and Critical Consciousness
Paul B. Thompson
9. Development and Globalization: The Ethical Challenges
Nigel Dower
Contributors
Index