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Meeting Needs
By (Author) David Braybrooke
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political ideologies and movements
Social and political philosophy
320.011
Hardback
358
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
652g
The concept of needs works to sort out social policies. Yet the idea is in disrepute with many thinkers who, led by economists, accuse it of being too fluid, or too narrow, or of serving no purpose that the concept of preferences does not serve better. David Braybrooke refutes these charges by providing a model of how the concept of needs works whe