A theory of human need
Doyal, L. & Gough, I.
(1991).
A theory of human need.
Palgrave Macmillan.
(1991).
A theory of human need.
Palgrave Macmillan.
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