Introduction: institutions and urgency. -- Instrumental freedoms and human capabilites. -- The missing squirm factor in Amartya Sen's capability approach. -- Institutions, inequality, and well-being: distributive determinants of capabilities realization. -- Development ethics through the lens of caring, gender, and human security. -- A methodologically Pragmatist approach to development ethics. -- Social development, capabilities, and the contradictions of (Capitalist) development. -- The struggle for local autonomy in a multiethnic society: constructing alternatives with indigenous epistemologies. -- Capabilities, consequentialism, and critical consciousness. -- Development and globalization: the ethical challenges.

1. Welfare economics
2. Distributive justice
3. Social justice
4. Social ethics
5. Political ethic