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Nussbaum's book combines ideas from the Capability approach, development economics, and distributive justice to substantiate a qualitative theory on capabilities. She criticizes existing economic indicators like GDP as failing to fully account for quality of life and assurance of basic needs, instead rewarding countries with large growth ...
In this approach, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum combine a range of ideas that were previously excluded from (or inadequately formulated in) traditional approaches to welfare economics. The core focus of the capability approach is improving access to the tools people use to live a fulfilling life. [1] [3]
Creating Capabilities is a book, first published by Martha Nussbaum in 2011, which outlines a unique theory regarding the Capability approach or the Human development approach. Nussbaum draws on theories of other notable advocates of the Capability approach like Amartya Sen , but makes specific distinctions.
Women and human development: the capabilities approach. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521003858. Nussbaum, Martha (2001). The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy (second ed.). Cambridge, U.K. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521791267. Nussbaum, Martha (2001).
The capabilities approach introduced by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen supports the ideal that each learner should be offered the freedom to choose from the alternative ways they learn and to do it as a shared experience, with the interaction of their peers.
The Human Development and Capabilities Association is an academic and research society whose aim is to promote the field of human development in general and the capability approach in particular. The Association was launched in 2004 with conferences in the UK at Cambridge and in Italy at Pavia. And has run conferences annually since.
The OxCAP-MH’s theoretical background is rooted in Amartya Sen’s capability theory [25].The development of this instrument was based on the earlier work of Paul Anand, who created a list of capability indicators based on Martha Nussbaum’s list of 10 central human capabilities [26] and the data from British Household Panel Survey [27] [28].
Nussbaum's capabilities approach attempts to tackle this question, and lists several traits she believes to be universal: [2] [7] Life – ability to live out a natural lifespan; Bodily Health – ability to have good health including reproductive health, adequate nourishment, shelter;