Julio Boltvinik 
From Poverty to Well-Being and Human Flourishing (Volume 2) [EPUB ebook] 
A Marxian Approach

Introduction

PART I: Negative and Positive Bases of the New Paradigm

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 (MPh A)

5. Positive Bases of the New Paradigm II: Concepts and Theories of Human Needs

6. Comparative Analysis of Human-Needs’ Theories

PART II: The New Paradigm: Perspectives for its Development

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, and Goodson’s Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: Challenging the Flourishing/Well-being approaches

Final remarks

Julio Boltvinik is a Professor for El Colegio de México’s Ph.D. Programme. While being a member of the Chamber of Deputies (2003-2006) he promoted a Law that enforces multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico. He has published widely on poverty, social policy, well-being and human flourishing, mainly in Spanish. He has written a weekly column in La Jornada, a Mexican critical newspaper, since 1995.