Need Satisfaction and Welfare Outcomes: Theory and Explanations*

Gough, Ian; Thomas, Theo

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.1994.tb00407.x

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“…In the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Gough (2015) later showed that the emphasis of economic theory on wants (preferences) over needs has produced social policies that neither advance human well-being nor address how climate change threatens basic need satisfaction for future generations. Other reasons for distinguishing between needs and wants have also been discussed (Frankfurt 1998, Gasper 2004, Gough and Thomas 1994, Macpherson 1977, Miller 2012a, Noonan 2006b.…”

Section: Theory Of Human Need: Conceptual Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs

Dover

2019

Humanity & Society

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This article presents an original needs-based partial theory of human injustice and shows its relationship to existing theories of human need and human liberation. The theory is based on an original typology of three social structural sources of human injustice, a partial theorization of the mechanisms of human injustice, and a needs-based theorization of the nature of human injustice, as experienced by individuals. This article makes a sociological contribution to normative social theory by clarifying the relationship of human injustice to human needs, human rights, and human liberation. The theory contends that human injustice is produced when oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation create systematic inequality in opportunities to address human needs, leading to wrongful need deprivation and the resulting serious harm. In one longer sentence, this needs-based theory of the sources, mechanisms, and nature of human injustice contends that three distinct social systemic sources—oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation—produce unique and/or overlapping social mechanisms, which create systematic inequality in opportunities to address universal human needs in culturally specific ways, thus producing the nature of the human injustice theorized here: wrongfully unmet needs and serious harm.

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Section: Theory Of Human Need: Conceptual Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs

Dover

2019

Humanity & Society

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“…Evans, 1979Evans, , 1995Evans et al, 1985) contend that modern states play important roles in the operation of national economies. Several researchers hold the view that state intervention in the economy influences quality of life (Bates, 1981;Gough and Thomas, 1994;Moon, 1991). They argue that states operate in ways that may increase human well-being.…”

Section: State Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio‐economic factors determining adult literacy in developing countries

Mazumdar

2005

International Journal of Social Economics

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Purpose -This study attempts to find the socio-economic factors behind the differential achievement level in adult literacy in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach -Considers a number of theories. These include modernization theory, dependency/world systems theory, developmental state theory, new human ecology theory and convergence-divergence theory as an explanation of the differential level of adult literacy rate. Findings -The findings reveal the importance of the initial level of adult literacy and the population growth. Similarly short-term economic growth has a significant impact on the initial level of adult literacy, and the medium human development and low human development samples Originality/value -This attempt to find the factors behind adult literacy is of importance not only as a constituent indicator of the human development index, but also through its various contributions towards economic growth.

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“…Table 2 compares Finnis' list of dimensions of well-being with those by Nussbaum. Is this list simply one more to stand alongside Nussbaum's and others (Dasgupta, 1993;Desai, 1990;Grin, 1991;Gough and Thomas, 1994;Qizilbash, 1996;Sen and Anand, 1994;Stewart, 1990) in a process of inquiry which might forever be`both tentative and open-ended'? If a broadly capabilities approach is to be useful and to oer sound guidance for the making of economic and social policy which advances human development, more clarity as to the dimensions of human well-being is needed.…”

Section: Towards An Account Of Human Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%