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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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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
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Relativism and the Problem of Human Need
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The Politics of Human Need
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Theory of Human Need
Authors: Len Doyal, Ian Gough
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21500-3
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Len Doyal and Ian Gough 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 381
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Public Policy