A Theory of Human Need

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Who Needs Human Needs?....Pages 9-21
The Inevitability of Human Needs....Pages 22-34
The Grammar of ‘Need’....Pages 35-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Physical Health and Autonomy: the Basic Needs of Persons....Pages 49-75
Societal Preconditions for the Satisfaction of Basic Needs....Pages 76-90
Human Liberation and the Right to Need-Satisfaction....Pages 91-115
Optimising Need-Satisfaction in Theory....Pages 116-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Measuring Need-Satisfaction....Pages 151-170
Physical Health and Autonomy....Pages 171-190
Intermediate Needs....Pages 191-221
Societal Preconditions for Optimising Need-Satisfaction....Pages 222-246
Charting Human Welfare: Need-Satisfaction in the Three Worlds....Pages 247-273
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Towards a Political Economy of Need-Satisfaction....Pages 277-296
A Dual Political Strategy....Pages 297-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-365