Following the highly respected first volume, this book continues to provide a holistic view of Julio Boltviniks vast and important work on poverty conceptualisation and measurement. While the previous book introduced the authors widely adopted Integrated Poverty Measurement Method (IPMM), this new volume outlines his Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing, focusing on what he conceptualises as human poverty.
Bringing together 20 years of research, this interdisciplinary book provides an alternative to Sens Capability approach and details its internal consistency, solid foundations and promising perspectives for applicability.
Introduction
PART I: Negative and Positive Bases of the New Paradigm
1. Negative Bases: A Synthesis of the Critique of the Political Economy of
Poverty (CPEP)
2. Positive Bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology I Work and the Human
Essence
3. Positive Bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology II Human Essence and
History
4. Two Tests of Marxs Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA)
5. Positive Bases of the New Paradigm II: Concepts and Theories of Human
Needs
6. Comparative Analysis of Human-Needs' Theories
PART II: The New Paradigm: Perspectives for its Development
7. A New Approach to Poverty and Human Flourishing
8. Development Challenges to the New Approach to Poverty and Human
Flourishing
9. Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow's and the Subjective Well-being
Currents of Thought
10. Thomson, Gill, and Goodson's Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life:
Challenging the Flourishing/Well-being approaches
Final remarks
Julio Boltvinik is Professor at Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México. He was member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and member of the Chamber of Deputies in the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress from September 2003 to August 2006. Since 1995, he has written a weekly column called Moral Economy in La Jornada, a critical national daily newspaper.
