a field of one's own - gender and land rights in south asia

http://books.google.ca/books?id=TBuevY3Mtn4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=amartya+sen&lr=&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=amartya%20sen&f=false

Amartya Sens work and ideas: a gender perspective

http://books.google.ca/books?id=h39f90FEoCAC&vq="India"&dq=amartya+sen&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s

slightly more random:

Creating a world without poverty: social business and the future of capitalism‎

by Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber - History - 2008 - 261 pages

Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank.

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The wealth and poverty of nations: why some are so rich and some so poor‎ by David S. Landes - Business & Economics - 1999 - 658 pages No preview available - About this book - Add to my library - More editions

The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so ...‎ by William Russell Easterly - Social Science - 2006 - 436 pages We take credit for the economic success stories of the last fifty years, like South Korea and Taiwan, when in fact we deserve very little. Limited preview - About this book - Add to my library - More editions The working poor: invisible in America‎ by David K. Shipler - Social Science - 2004 - 319 pages “Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. Snippet view - About this book - Add to my library - More editions Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, ‘working poor,’ should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.” —from the Introduction From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. Rachel and her children: homeless families in America‎ by Jonathan Kozol - Social Science - 2006 - 303 pages The story that jolted the conscience of the nation when it first appeared in The New YorkerJonathan Kozol is one of America’s most forceful and eloquent ... Limited preview - About this book - Add to my library - More editions Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor‎ by Paul Farmer - Social Science - 2004 - 402 pages "This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. Limited preview - About this book - Add to my library - More editions THIS FOLLOWING GUY HAS A FOREWARD BY AMARTYA SEN: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor By Paul Farmer Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering. Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering. http://books.google.ca/books?id=2sbP7J-lckoC&dq=subject:"Social+Science+/+Poverty"&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s see p. xix for an interesting critique of the "privileged" human rights discussors. ___________________________________________ Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future By Bill McKibben 9780805087222 Challenging the prevailing wisdom that the goal of economies should be unlimited growth, McKibben (The End of Nature) argues that the world doesn't have enough natural resources to sustain endless economic expansion. For example, if the Chinese owned cars in the same numbers as Americans, there would be 1.1 billion more vehicles on the road-untenable in a world that is rapidly running out of oil and clean air. Drawing the phrase "deep economy" from the expression "deep ecology," a term environmentalists use to signify new ways of thinking about the environment, he suggests we need to explore new economic ideas. Rather then promoting accelerated cycles of economic expansion-a mindset that has brought the world to the brink of environmental disaster-we should concentrate on creating localized economies: community-scale power systems instead of huge centralized power plants; cohousing communities instead of sprawling suburbs. He gives examples of promising ventures of this type, such as a community-supported farm in Vermont and a community biosphere reserve, or large national park-like area, in Himalayan India, but some of the ideas-local currencies as supplements to national money, for example-seem overly optimistic. Nevertheless, McKibben's proposals for new, less growth-centered ways of thinking about economics are intriguing, and offer hope that change is possible.(Mar. 20)