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Item Details
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A THEORY OF HUMAN NEED
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| By: |
Len Doyal, Ian Gough |
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Paperback |
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£39.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333383257 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333383254 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
10 October, 1991 |
| Pages: |
381 |
| Description: |
Argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction. The authors show what such optimization would mean in practice and assess the records of developed and underdeveloped economies in meeting their citizens' needs. |
| Synopsis: |
Rejecting fashionable subjectivist and cultural relativist approaches, this important book argues that human beings have universal and objective needs for health and autonomy and a right to their optimal satisfaction. The authors develop a system of social indicators to show what such optimization would mean in practice and assess the records of a wide range of developed and underdeveloped economies in meeting their citizens' needs |
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XVI, 381 p. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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