A Theory of Human Need

Rejecting Fashionable Subjectivist And Cultural Relativist Approaches This Important Book Argues That Human Beings Have Universal And Objective Needs For Health And Autonomy And A Right To Their Optimal Satisfaction. The Authors Develop A System Of Social Indicators To Show What Such Optimization Would Mean In Practice And Assess The Records Of A Wide Range Of Developed And Underdeveloped Economies In Meeting Their Citizens'' Needs.