Kenneth A. Reinert

“The premise of this book is that basic goods, namely those goods and services that meet basic human needs, are at the center of human progress. The approach views basic goods as the ingredients of well-being in that they allow human beings to be secure, healthy, literate, and able to participate effectively in their societies. They are the material prerequisites of capability expansion and can help to support growth processes. Basic goods provision is part of minimalist approaches to ethics and systems of basic human rights, namely subsistence rights. Significant deprivations in basic goods and services are widespread, and we face significant challenges to overcoming these deprivations. Basic goods might not be what matters above all else, but they nonetheless matter a great deal.”
― Kenneth A. Reinert, No Small Hope: Towards the Universal Provision of Basic Goods