Position in ISS:	Professor of Human Development, Development Ethics & Public Policy
Department(s):	ISS Faculty Staff Group 2: States, Societies and World Development
Committee(s):	Staff Group Board II
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Des Gasper studied economics, international development, policy analysis and evaluation at the universities of Cambridge and East Anglia, in Britain, obtaining a PhD (Development Studies, Univ. of East Anglia) in 1986. He spent most of the 1980s...

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2010: Development Ethics. Co-editor Asuncion Lera St. Clair. Aldershot: Ashgate. (576 pp.) International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics.

2009: How can power discourses be changed? - Contrasting the ‘daughter deficit’ policy of the Delhi government with Gandhi and King’s transformational reframing. Co-author: Manisha Sinha. Critical Policy Studies, 3 (3&4), 290-308.

2008: Trans-Local Livelihoods and Connections. Special issue on transnational migration and multi-local livelihoods. Gender, Technology and Development, 2008, no.3. Co-editor Thanh-Dam Truong.

2008: From ‘Hume’s Law’ To Policy Analysis For Human Development - Sen after Dewey, Myrdal, Streeten, Stretton and Haq. Review of Political Economy, 20(2), 233-256. Earlier version as ISS Working Paper 451, http://biblio.iss.nl/opac/uploads/wp/wp451.pdf.

2008: ‘The Idea of Human Security’, Garnet Working Paper 28/08, http://www.garnet-eu.org/fileadmin/documents/working_papers/2808.pdf.

2007: Human Rights, Human Needs, Human Development, Human Security. Forum for Development Studies, 2007/1, pp. 9-43; and http://www.garnet-eu.org/fileadmin/documents/working_papers/2007.pdf Revised version in Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations, ed. Patrick Hayden, Ashgate: Aldershot, 2009.

2007: Uncounted or Illusory Blessings? Competing Responses to the Easterlin, Easterbrook and Schwartz Paradoxes of Well-Being. J. of International Development, 19(4), 473-492 . Earlier version at:

http://adlib.iss.nl/adlib/uploads/wp/wp430.pdf

2007: What is the Capability Approach? Its Core, Rationale, Partners and Dangers. Journal of Socio-Economics (Elsevier), 36(3), 335-359. Earlier version at: http://adlib.iss.nl/adlib/uploads/wp/wp428.pdf.

2007: (Editor) Living In Common and Deliberating In Common - Foundational issues in sustainable human development and human security. Special issue of International Journal of Social Economics (Emerald), 34 (1/2), 5-126. Co-edited with P.B. Anand.

2006: (Editor) ‘Everything for Sale? Ethics of National and International Development’, special issue of Ethics and Economics / La revue Éthique et Économique, (Univ. of Versailles) vol. 4, no. 2. Selected papers from the 7th international conference of the International Development Ethics Association (Makerere University, July 2006). http://ethics-economics.com/ (211 pp.).

2006: What is the Point of Development Ethics? Ethics and Economics, 4(2), http://ethics-economics.com/IMG/pdf/GASPER-Intro-2.pdf

2006: (Editor) Cosmopolitanisms and the Frontiers of Justice. Special section, Development and Change, 37(6), 1227-1334.

2004: The Ethics of Development – From Economism to Human Development. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 272 pp. And 2005: South Asian edition, New Delhi: Sage.

2004: ‘Interdisciplinarity’, pp.308-344 in A.K. Giri (ed.), Creative Social Research, Lanham MD: Lexington Books, and Delhi: Sage.

2000: Structures And Meanings - A Way To Introduce Argumentation Analysis In Policy Studies Education. Africanus 30(1), 49-72. Also at: http://adlib.iss.nl/adlib/uploads/wp/wp317.pdf

1996: Arguing Development Policy: Frames and Discourses, co-edited with R. Apthorpe. London: Frank Cass.

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Policy analysis, discourse analysis, ethics, well-being, human development, human rights, human security, migration

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