Capabilities, Power, and Institutions

Capabilities, Power, and Institutions: Toward a More Critical Development Ethics is a scholarly examination of development ethics, political science, and business and economics. Volume 1 of this collection explores the capabilities approach, a paradigm popularized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. This framework emphasizes that citizens require fundamental capabilities, such as healthcare and education, to act as effective agents of economic development.

The text analyzes how skills, resource control, and moral virtues influence growth within developing and emerging countries. By integrating perspectives from social science and globalization, the authors reformulate the capabilities approach to highlight the critical role of institutional power. These essays provide a rigorous academic critique of how political theory and development economics intersect to shape the future of global social science.