Poverty and Human Rights: Sen's 'Capability Perspective' Explored

by Polly Vizard

This book provides a major new cross-disciplinary framework for thinking about poverty and human rights. Drawing on the fields of ethics, economics, and international law, Vizard demonstrates how the work of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has expanded and deepened human rights discourse across traditional disciplinary divides.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005