This book examines human development in times of crisis, and its effect on social justice and democracy, with a focus on the delay in developmental progress caused by the ‘Great Recession’, the worst economic crisis in decades.

1. Introduction. Capabilities and Society: Renegotiating Social Justice in Times of Crisis .- 2. The ambivalence of social policies and the challenge of Human Development: A proposal for assessing their impact against the capability approach .- 3. Corrosive disadvantages and intersectionality: empirical evidence on multidimensional inequality accross youth in Europe .- 4. Capabilities and working lives .- 5. Children’s rights in times of austerity .- 6. Children’s well-being in times of crisis in PIIGS countries: the Capability Approach as a multidimensional approach to deprivation .- 7. Capabilities as the informational basis for gender equality policy in higher education .- 8. The University and sustainable human development .- 9. A brief history of liberty and its lessons .- 10. Some reflections on capability and the Republican Freedom as a response to Philip Pettit’s Address on the MarthaNussbaum Symposium .- 11. Anger: Weakness, Payback, Down-Ranking .- 12. Inclusive Human Progress: from structural vulnerabilities to social cohesion .- 13. Confronting Inequality and Corruption: Agency, Empowerment, and Democratic Development .- 14. Public choice and the CA: Self-interest, altruisme and their consequences for sustainable development groups .- 15. Innovation and Justice: contributions of the capabilities approach to a 21st century, transformative perspective on innovation .- 16. The capabilities approach, the environment and relational values. Why we should conceive of the environment as co-constituents of capabilities.

“The perspective of human development has advanced the analysis and assessment of the serious challenges people face in our precarious world. This engaging collection of papers makes a significant contribution to the understanding and enriching of that important perspective.” (Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, USA)

"The perspective of human development has advanced the analysis and assessment of the serious challenges people face in our precarious world. This engaging collection of papers makes a significant contribution to the understanding and enriching of that important perspective." (Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, USA)

Examines human development in the contexts of philosophy, social policy, education, health and welfare economics Presents programmative conceptions to enhance the quality of society and social justice Draws on the capability approach by leading international experts of various social sciences

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