Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach : An Interdisciplinary Dialogue (Hardcover)

Foreword Amartya Sen  Chapter 1. Introduction: The Capability approach and human rights Polly Vizard, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Diane Elson  Chapter 2. Capabilities, Entitlements, Rights: Supplementation and Critique Martha Nussbaum  Chapter 3. Responsible Pluralism, Capabilities and Human Rights Jay Drydyck  Chapter 4. Economics and Human Rights: A Non-Conversation Sanjay Reddy  Chapter 5. The Metrics of Human Rights:Complementarities of the Human Development and Capabilities Approach Sakiko Fukuda-Parr  Chapter 6. ‘Operationalising’ the capability approach as a basis for equality and human rights monitoring in 21^st century Britain Tania Burchardt and Polly Vizard  Chapter 7. Millennium Development Goals and human rights: Far away, so close? Simone Cecchini and Francesco Notti  Chapter 8. Right to information and local governance institutions: An exploration P.B. Anand  Chapter 9. Financial Regulation, Capabilities and human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: the Case of Housing Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson, and James Heintz  Chapter 10. Towards a Human Rights Accountability Index Philip Alston  Chapter 11. Poverty and Human Rights: Building on the Capability Approach Siddiqur Rahman Osmani