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Following the highly respected first volume, this book outlines Julio Boltvinik's Marxian approach to poverty and human flourishing.

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Author:   Julio Boltvinik (El Colegio de México)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447372189

ISBN 10:   1447372182
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   20 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 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 Marx’s Philosophical Anthropology (MPA) 5. Positive Bases of the New Paradigm II: Concepts and Theories of Human Needs 6. Comparative Analysis of Human-Needs Theories 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 & Goodson: Conceptions and Principles 11. Final remarks

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Julio Boltvinik is Professor Centro de Estudios Sociolgicos at El Colegio de Mexico. He served as Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) member of the Chamber of Deputies in the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress from September 2003 to August 2006. He also writes a weekly column on moral economy in La Jornada, a critical national daily newspaper.

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