{"product_id":"poverty-work-and-freedom-david-p-levine-9780521848268","title":"Poverty, Work, and Freedom","description":"The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores a different approach to poverty, one suggested by the notion of capabilities emphasized by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. In the spirit of the capabilities approach, the book argues that poverty refers not to a lack of things but to the lack of the ability to live life in a particular way. The authors argue that the poor are those who cannot live a life that is discovered and created rather than already known. Avoiding poverty, then, means having the capacity and opportunity for creative living. The authors argue that the capacity to do skilled work plays a particularly important role in creative living, and suggest that the development of the ability to do skilled work is a vital part of solving the problem of poverty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David P. Levine,S. Abu Turab Rizvi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521848261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521848268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"David P. Levine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47422360223999,"sku":"9780521848268","price":122.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3f539e53-8ff5-449a-b0b3-35702b42e6ff.jpg?v=1761527658","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poverty-work-and-freedom-david-p-levine-9780521848268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}