No small hope: The basic goods imperative

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-76

  Reinert, Kenneth A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic goods; Capabilities; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751509172     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: 14701162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00346760802714875     Document Type: Article

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