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Belinda Probert

Belinda Probert is Deputy Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University. She has written widely on social policy and inequality, and gender, work, and the family.

Belinda Probert reviews 'Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach' by Martha C. Nussbaum

September 2011, no. 334 23 August 2011
Martha Nussbaum has been attracting attention in the Australian press recently for her views on the importance of the humanities in university education. As the British government prepares to cut all public funding for the teaching of the humanities, social sciences, and much else besides, Nussbaum’s last book, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2010), has been widely cited by t ... (read more)