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catalog abstract ""The Ethics of Development synthesises ideas from philosophy, economics and social theory, building in particular on the world of Len Doyal, Ian Gough, Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Dealing carefully and sympathetically with a range of viewpoints, it elucidates complex issues with the help of historical and contemporary examples. It caters especially to students in development studies, anthropology, economics, philosophy, political science and social policy."--Jacket.".
catalog contributor b13211445.
catalog coverage "Developing countries Moral conditions.".
catalog coverage "Developing countries Social conditions.".
catalog created "c2004.".
catalog date "2004".
catalog date "c2004.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
catalog description ""The Ethics of Development synthesises ideas from philosophy, economics and social theory, building in particular on the world of Len Doyal, Ian Gough, Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Dealing carefully and sympathetically with a range of viewpoints, it elucidates complex issues with the help of historical and contemporary examples. It caters especially to students in development studies, anthropology, economics, philosophy, political science and social policy."--Jacket.".
catalog description "1. What is the Ethics of Development? 1 -- 1.1 Why Development Ethics? Cases and Questions 1 -- Extreme poverty amidst immense riches 2 -- Health and sickness, needs and profits 4 -- Towards a 'calculus of pain': recognising varieties of suffering and violence 7 -- The infliction of costs on the weak: the examples of dams, famines, debt and structural adjustment 9 -- Global obligations and universal values? 13 -- What is development? 14 -- 1.2 What? On Meanings and Agenda 14 -- The core agenda of development ethics 14 -- Emergence and contributors 16 -- 1.3 How? On Methods and Roles 19 -- Methods 19 -- Possible roles of development ethics 21 -- Global or Southern? 22 -- 2. The Meaning of 'Development' 25 -- 2.1 Purposes and Themes 25 -- 2.2 Ahistorical Definitions of 'Development' 27 -- Usages across the disciplines 27 -- Usages in development studies 28 -- 2.3".
catalog description "134 -- Meanings and syntax of 'need' 134 -- A unifying framework for needs ethics and policy 137 -- Meanings of 'basic' 141 -- 6.3 A Richer Picture of Persons 142 -- Do we require a picture of persons? 143 -- A better empirical base for prediction and evaluation 143 -- Reinterpretations of poverty, luxury and limitless demand 148 -- 6.4 Dangers in Needs Theories and Ethics 152 -- Is basic needs analysis passive and pacifying? 152 -- Overextended? 155 -- 6.5 The Discursive and Practical Strategy of Basic Human Needs 156 -- A required basis for other ethics 156 -- Operationalising basic needs: targets, rights, responsibilities 157 -- A programmatic alternative to economism 159 -- 6.6 Conclusion: Beggars can't be Choosers 160 -- 7. 'Human Development': Capabilities and Positive Freedom 163 -- 7.1 From Basic Needs to a Fuller Philosophy of Development 163 -- 7.2 The UNDP Human Development School 166 --".
catalog description "Assessing the Different Interpretations 107 -- Equality of what? Why equality? 107 -- Selecting from or inter-relating the principles 109 -- Socio-political contexts 110 -- 5. Violence and Human Security 114 -- 5.1 The Reemergence of Violence and Security as Central Concerns 114 -- 5.2 Development and Violence as Value-relative? On Concepts 116 -- Violence 116 -- Development and peace 117 -- 5.3 Development as Value-Damaging? 118 -- Varieties of violence 118 -- Violence and the economy 120 -- 5.4 Downgrading the Cost of Violence 123 -- Market theory: only interests, no passions 123 -- The downgrading and defining away of costs and alternatives 125 -- 5.5 Real Alternatives and Painful Choices 126 -- Notions of tragedy, evil, dilemma 126 -- Towards a calculus of pain, with a respect for persons 128 -- 6. Needs and Basic Needs 131 -- 6.1 First Things First 131 -- 6.2 The Language of Need".
catalog description "Historically Specific Conceptions of Development: On Change, Intervention and Progress 32 -- 2.4 On Improvement: Issues in Evaluative Ahistorical Definition 35 -- Development as opportunity or as achievement? 36 -- The grossness of gross national/domestic product 39 -- Universalism and relativism 41 -- Commonality? 44 -- 3. 'Efficiency and Effectiveness': Mainstream Development Evaluation in Theory and Practice 49 -- 3.1 Introduction: Mainstream Value Positions and Alternatives 49 -- 3.2 Effectiveness Towards What and For Whom? 51 -- Effectiveness towards what? 51 -- Effectiveness for whom? 54 -- 3.3 Efficiency in Terms of Which Values? 56 -- What is efficient depends on what one's values are 57 -- Tacit variants of economic efficiency: Paretian and utilitarian 61 -- Concepts of efficiency and practices of victimisation 64 -- 3.4 Setting Economic Efficiency in Social and Environmental Context 66 --".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index.".
catalog description "Limitations of a separate concept of economic efficiency 66 -- Economic efficiency confined to a delimited role within a human and physical context 70 -- Means and ends 73 -- 3.5 Understanding Value Systems 74 -- Comparison of value positions in development evaluation 74 -- The structure of market-derived arguments 76 -- 'Consumer sovereignty' 78 -- 3.6 Conclusion: Beyond Economism 80 -- 4. 'Equity': Who Bears Costs and Who Reaps Benefits? 84 -- 4.1 Sacrificing the Weak 84 -- 4.2 Aspects of Equity 88 -- Criteria of distributive equity 88 -- An application to the regulation of grazing in Zimbabwe 92 -- An application to selection for resettlement in Zimbabwe 93 -- Positive discrimination? 96 -- 4.3 A Deeper Analysis of Concepts 97 -- Sen's framework for understanding different distributive criteria 98 -- Land, returns and the fruits of effort 102 -- Whose are the international debts? 104 -- 4.4".
catalog description "The Human Development Reports 166 -- Human Development and Human Rights 169 -- 7.3 Sen's Capability Approach and 'Development as Freedom' 171 -- Freedom and reason 171 -- Development as freedom 172 -- Aspects of the capability approach 173 -- Policy orientation 177 -- 7.4 Doubts and Alternatives 179 -- Sen's picture of persons, capabilities and freedom 179 -- Nussbaum's capabilities ethic 182 -- For and against a universal list of priority capabilities 185 -- 8. Cultures and the Ethics of Development 191 -- 8.1 Can One Criticise Cultures and yet Avoid Ethnocentrism? 191 -- Agenda 191 -- Introductory cases 192 -- Is liberalism illiberal? 194 -- 8.2 Culture: The Underlying Issues 196 -- Conceptions of culture 196 -- Roles perceived for culture 197 -- Natural man, plasticine man, nurtured natural man 200 -- The uneasy relation between individual rights and group rights 201 --".
catalog description "Women's right to employment? 204 -- 8.3 Communitarian Ethics and Cultural Relativism 205 -- The texture of communitarian ethics 205 -- Walzer's worlds 206 -- Communitarianism is based on poor sociology 208 -- Cultural relativism is inconsistent, internally and with our other beliefs 209 -- The centrality of internal criticism 211 -- 8.4 Cases and Procedures 212 -- Criteria for just decisions 213 -- An overview of cases 216.".
catalog extent "xvi, 255 p. :".
catalog hasFormat "Ethics of development.".
catalog identifier "0748610588".
catalog isFormatOf "Ethics of development.".
catalog isPartOf "Edinburgh studies in world ethics".
catalog issued "2004".
catalog issued "c2004.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,".
catalog relation "Ethics of development.".
catalog spatial "Developing countries Moral conditions.".
catalog spatial "Developing countries Social conditions.".
catalog subject "174 21".
catalog subject "Economic development Moral and ethical aspects.".
catalog subject "Economic development Social aspects.".
catalog subject "HD75 .G377 2004".
catalog tableOfContents "1. What is the Ethics of Development? 1 -- 1.1 Why Development Ethics? Cases and Questions 1 -- Extreme poverty amidst immense riches 2 -- Health and sickness, needs and profits 4 -- Towards a 'calculus of pain': recognising varieties of suffering and violence 7 -- The infliction of costs on the weak: the examples of dams, famines, debt and structural adjustment 9 -- Global obligations and universal values? 13 -- What is development? 14 -- 1.2 What? On Meanings and Agenda 14 -- The core agenda of development ethics 14 -- Emergence and contributors 16 -- 1.3 How? On Methods and Roles 19 -- Methods 19 -- Possible roles of development ethics 21 -- Global or Southern? 22 -- 2. The Meaning of 'Development' 25 -- 2.1 Purposes and Themes 25 -- 2.2 Ahistorical Definitions of 'Development' 27 -- Usages across the disciplines 27 -- Usages in development studies 28 -- 2.3".
catalog tableOfContents "134 -- Meanings and syntax of 'need' 134 -- A unifying framework for needs ethics and policy 137 -- Meanings of 'basic' 141 -- 6.3 A Richer Picture of Persons 142 -- Do we require a picture of persons? 143 -- A better empirical base for prediction and evaluation 143 -- Reinterpretations of poverty, luxury and limitless demand 148 -- 6.4 Dangers in Needs Theories and Ethics 152 -- Is basic needs analysis passive and pacifying? 152 -- Overextended? 155 -- 6.5 The Discursive and Practical Strategy of Basic Human Needs 156 -- A required basis for other ethics 156 -- Operationalising basic needs: targets, rights, responsibilities 157 -- A programmatic alternative to economism 159 -- 6.6 Conclusion: Beggars can't be Choosers 160 -- 7. 'Human Development': Capabilities and Positive Freedom 163 -- 7.1 From Basic Needs to a Fuller Philosophy of Development 163 -- 7.2 The UNDP Human Development School 166 --".
catalog tableOfContents "Assessing the Different Interpretations 107 -- Equality of what? Why equality? 107 -- Selecting from or inter-relating the principles 109 -- Socio-political contexts 110 -- 5. Violence and Human Security 114 -- 5.1 The Reemergence of Violence and Security as Central Concerns 114 -- 5.2 Development and Violence as Value-relative? On Concepts 116 -- Violence 116 -- Development and peace 117 -- 5.3 Development as Value-Damaging? 118 -- Varieties of violence 118 -- Violence and the economy 120 -- 5.4 Downgrading the Cost of Violence 123 -- Market theory: only interests, no passions 123 -- The downgrading and defining away of costs and alternatives 125 -- 5.5 Real Alternatives and Painful Choices 126 -- Notions of tragedy, evil, dilemma 126 -- Towards a calculus of pain, with a respect for persons 128 -- 6. Needs and Basic Needs 131 -- 6.1 First Things First 131 -- 6.2 The Language of Need".
catalog tableOfContents "Historically Specific Conceptions of Development: On Change, Intervention and Progress 32 -- 2.4 On Improvement: Issues in Evaluative Ahistorical Definition 35 -- Development as opportunity or as achievement? 36 -- The grossness of gross national/domestic product 39 -- Universalism and relativism 41 -- Commonality? 44 -- 3. 'Efficiency and Effectiveness': Mainstream Development Evaluation in Theory and Practice 49 -- 3.1 Introduction: Mainstream Value Positions and Alternatives 49 -- 3.2 Effectiveness Towards What and For Whom? 51 -- Effectiveness towards what? 51 -- Effectiveness for whom? 54 -- 3.3 Efficiency in Terms of Which Values? 56 -- What is efficient depends on what one's values are 57 -- Tacit variants of economic efficiency: Paretian and utilitarian 61 -- Concepts of efficiency and practices of victimisation 64 -- 3.4 Setting Economic Efficiency in Social and Environmental Context 66 --".
catalog tableOfContents "Limitations of a separate concept of economic efficiency 66 -- Economic efficiency confined to a delimited role within a human and physical context 70 -- Means and ends 73 -- 3.5 Understanding Value Systems 74 -- Comparison of value positions in development evaluation 74 -- The structure of market-derived arguments 76 -- 'Consumer sovereignty' 78 -- 3.6 Conclusion: Beyond Economism 80 -- 4. 'Equity': Who Bears Costs and Who Reaps Benefits? 84 -- 4.1 Sacrificing the Weak 84 -- 4.2 Aspects of Equity 88 -- Criteria of distributive equity 88 -- An application to the regulation of grazing in Zimbabwe 92 -- An application to selection for resettlement in Zimbabwe 93 -- Positive discrimination? 96 -- 4.3 A Deeper Analysis of Concepts 97 -- Sen's framework for understanding different distributive criteria 98 -- Land, returns and the fruits of effort 102 -- Whose are the international debts? 104 -- 4.4".
catalog tableOfContents "The Human Development Reports 166 -- Human Development and Human Rights 169 -- 7.3 Sen's Capability Approach and 'Development as Freedom' 171 -- Freedom and reason 171 -- Development as freedom 172 -- Aspects of the capability approach 173 -- Policy orientation 177 -- 7.4 Doubts and Alternatives 179 -- Sen's picture of persons, capabilities and freedom 179 -- Nussbaum's capabilities ethic 182 -- For and against a universal list of priority capabilities 185 -- 8. Cultures and the Ethics of Development 191 -- 8.1 Can One Criticise Cultures and yet Avoid Ethnocentrism? 191 -- Agenda 191 -- Introductory cases 192 -- Is liberalism illiberal? 194 -- 8.2 Culture: The Underlying Issues 196 -- Conceptions of culture 196 -- Roles perceived for culture 197 -- Natural man, plasticine man, nurtured natural man 200 -- The uneasy relation between individual rights and group rights 201 --".
catalog tableOfContents "Women's right to employment? 204 -- 8.3 Communitarian Ethics and Cultural Relativism 205 -- The texture of communitarian ethics 205 -- Walzer's worlds 206 -- Communitarianism is based on poor sociology 208 -- Cultural relativism is inconsistent, internally and with our other beliefs 209 -- The centrality of internal criticism 211 -- 8.4 Cases and Procedures 212 -- Criteria for just decisions 213 -- An overview of cases 216.".
catalog title "The ethics of development : from economism to human development / Des Gasper.".
catalog type "text".