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  1. Podcast

    …s. He has won numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including Wellcome Trust Research and Senior Research Fellowships. He has been elected to prestigious professional organizations, commissions, and panels including the RSA, Faculty of Public Health, Human Development and Capability Association, and Lancet-Univ. of Oslo Panel on Global Governance for Health. Sridhar is a fellow of the HDCA. For more information on Sridhar, and on the applicatio…

  2. NEW BOOK: Dignity, Freedom and Justice

    …political liberalism in the light of dignity. Behind it is a scope of reconstructing a theory of justice in modern society. Further behind it, there is a scope encompassing reflection on the methodology of liberal social sciences and philosophy. We leave it to the reader’s imagination as to which scope to read this book through, and what image will emerge from the three scopes taken together. It is our hope that this book helps readers envision as…

  3. What are HD & the CA?

    …man lives? The CA does not give a blueprint on how to act to transform the world so that all may live flourishing human lives, let alone to give a blueprint of what it means to flourish as a human being – although some interpretation of CA, such as Martha Nussbaum’s capabilities approach, develop a more specific idea of human flourishing and the institutional arrangements to bring it about. But however one interprets it, CA leaves each one of us t…

  4. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …onomic growth. Instead, education is important in a richer way; it has instrumental (e.g. getting a job) and intrinsic (e.g. a love of reading for its own sake) value and transformative potential (e.g. greater gender equality). Education is also valuable for its democratic contributions; it can teach us to reason and deliberate with others – critically, and in an informed way. Education has interpersonal effects in opening up opportunities for oth…

  5. Workshop critical realism, CA & social entrepreneurship/innovation/design

    …On April 30, 2012 there will be a workshop in Berlin under the title “Philosophy of science & case studies – An exploratory workshop with a focus on critical realism and the capability approach” – so no technology or design in there. But if you read the description of the workshop, you will see that the area of application highlighted in the workshop will be social entrepreneurship / design / innovation. If you would like to register or have any…

  6. Online Access

    HDCA members can read issues of the Journal of Human Development & Capabilities (JHDC) online and download articles as PDFs, including the full archives of past issues. Please click below to access the online and digital articles (it only works if you are already logged in to the HDCA website with your HDCA user name). Become a member to access the journal. Become a member to access the journal A personal subscription to the Journal of Human Deve…

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