An agnostic field with transdisciplinary vition: Human Development

Abstract

A new field of social sciences appears massively in the nineties by means of the Index of Human Development (IDH) elaborated by the PNUD. Nevertheless, its prehistory is vast and has summoned great thinkers from the antiquity. Three names appear mainly in the fifty, Sen, Arrow and Rawls that inaugurate a great synthesis that reunites, mainly, economy, ethics, political sciences and philosophy. Later, new methodologies and important theoretical discussions in multiple international seminaries have proliferate. The article sets out to expose the great lines of this field of study. The intention is to clarify the areas in which this field is developed, and to provoke the interest to develop this thematic as a new transdisciplinarian paradigm.