No Small Hope
The Basic Goods Imperative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9256941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth A Reinert, Kenneth Reinert (0000-0001-5143-830X, George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-76 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346760802714875 |
| OpenAlex | W2145460408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper argues in favor of a basic goods approach to outcomes assessment in development policy analysis. It contrasts the basic goods approach with the utility-of-consumption and capabilities approaches and argues, on a number of grounds, that it is a more relevant and appropriate framework. The dimensions of the basic goods approach analyzed include a common, minimalist character, sense of justice, subjectivist-objectivist considerations, the human condition, relationship to policy space, and the theoretical and empirical role of basic needs. Taken as a whole, these perspectives suggest that the basic goods approach offers key advantages not found in the two relevant alternatives
Consumption (sociology) · Economic Justice · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Goods and services · Key (lock) · Neoclassical economics · Objectivism · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Subjectivism · Computer Science · Human Rights and Development · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · International Development and Aid
Ideas, Development, and Globalization
Religion and Basic Goods Provision
The Foundational Economy as a Cornerstone for a Social–Ecological Transformation
Human well‐being and climate change mitigation
Human development in a climate-constrained world
Access to infrastructure services
A Framework for Decoupling Human Need Satisfaction From Energy Use
From Sustainable Development Goals to Basic Development Goals
The Domestic Transition
On the Natural and Economic Difficulties to Fulfilling the Human Right to Water Within a Neoclassical Economics Framework
Decent Living Standards
Economics and Consumer Behavior
Experience and nature.
Thick and Thin
The Standard of Living
Human Flourishing Versus Desire Satisfaction
Facts and Values
Development as Capability Expansion
I.—utilitarianism Revised
Moral Differences
On the Subjectivity of Welfare
The Subjectivity of Welfare
A Theory of Justice
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
Well-being
Minimalism About Human Rights
Basic needs
Indicators of development
Basic needs
Structural Change and Economic Growth
Moral Differences
A New Approach to Consumer Theory
Consumer Behaviour
Linear Expenditure Systems and Demand Analysis
Noneconomic Objectives in the History of Economic Thought
A theory of human motivation
Moral Universalism and Global Economic Justice
A Theory of Human Need
Women and Human Development
Basic Needs versus Distributional Weights in Social Cost-Benefit Analysis
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |