TY - BOOK ID - 71450177 TI - Poverty, work, and freedom : political economy and the moral order AU - Levine, David P. AU - Rizvi, S. Abu Turab PY - 2005 SN - 9780521848268 9780511491849 9780521184144 0511125992 9780511125997 0511125135 9780511125133 0511491840 1280434945 9781280434945 0521848261 0521184142 0511182031 9780511182037 0511199252 9780511199257 0511299958 9780511299957 110715295X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Work KW - Poverty. KW - Poor. KW - Liberty KW - Economics KW - Economic sociology KW - Socio-economics KW - Socioeconomics KW - Sociology of economics KW - Sociology KW - Civil liberty KW - Emancipation KW - Freedom KW - Liberation KW - Personal liberty KW - Democracy KW - Natural law KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Libertarianism KW - Social control KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Poverty KW - Destitution KW - Wealth KW - Basic needs KW - Begging KW - Subsistence economy KW - Social aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Social aspects KW - Economic conditions KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71450177 AB - 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. ER -