Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2011-03-16
Books mentioned on 26. The Health of Nations
For decades, GDP has been the yardstick for measuring living standards around the world. Martha Nussbaum would rather use something that actually works.
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Creating Capabilities
“But I recently wrote a book about development economics and a kind of philosophical criticism of standard models of development economics. And it's called Creating Capabilities, the Human Development Approach.”
Passing Free to Choose
“Now, a lot of this doesn't sound too different really from what Milton Friedman has written, which would not be the first person that came to mind when I started to read your book. I'm curious to know what you think of Friedman”
Passing Creating Capabilities
“Martha Nussbaum is the author of a new book called Creating Capabilities, the Human Development Approach. She's a philosopher who teaches law at the University of Chicago, although interestingly, she's not a lawyer.”