Full Description
Following the highly respected first volume, this book continues to provide a holistic view of Julio Boltvinik's vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While the previous book introduced the author's widely adopted Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM), this new volume outlines his Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing, focusing on what he conceptualises as human poverty.
Bringing together 20 years of research, this interdisciplinary book provides an alternative to Sen's Capability approach and details its internal consistency, solid foundations and promising perspectives for applicability.
Contents
Introduction
PART I: Negative and Positive Bases of the New Paradigm
1. Negative Bases: A Synthesis of the Critique of the Political Economy of Poverty (CPEP)
2. Positive Bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology I - Work and the Human Essence
3. Positive Bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology II - Human Essence and History
4. Two Tests of Marx's Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA)
5. Positive Bases of the New Paradigm II: Concepts and Theories of Human Needs
6. Comparative Analysis of Human-Needs' Theories
PART II: The New Paradigm: Perspectives for its Development
7. A New Approach to Poverty and Human Flourishing
8. Development Challenges to the New Approach to Poverty and Human Flourishing
9. Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow's and the Subjective Well-being Currents of Thought
10. Thomson, Gill, and Goodson's Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: Challenging the Flourishing/Well-being approaches
Final remarks
