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The capability approach (also referred to as the capabilities approach) is a normative approach to human welfare that concentrates on the actual capability of persons to achieve lives they value rather than solely having a right or freedom to do so. [1] It was conceived in the 1980s as an alternative approach to welfare economics. [2]
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.
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 ...
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).
Gasper, D. (1997). Sen's capability approach and Nussbaum's capabilities ethic. Journal of International Development, 9(2), 281-302. Gasper, D. (2002). Is Sen's ...
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;
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.
Only when such barriers are removed can the citizen truly be said to act out of personal choice. It is up to the individual society to make the list of minimum capabilities guaranteed by that society. For an example of the "capabilities approach" in practice, see Martha Nussbaum's Women and Human Development. [34]