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Development as Freedom

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - Business & Economics - 366 pages
In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom.
  

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Review: Development as Freedom (عالم المعرفة #303)

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If I remember correctly: dry prose, brilliant ideas. Read full review

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User Review  - Mandy - Goodreads

Had I known that this book was compiled based off a series of lectures that Sen did for the World Bank, I wouldn't have been so surprised by the neoliberal free market cheerleading. As it was, I was ... Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

The Perspective of Freedom
13
The ends and the Means of Development
35
Freedom and the Foundations of Justice
54
Poverty as Capability Deprivation
87
Markets States and Social Opportunity
111
The Importance of Democracy
146
Famines and Other Crises
160
Womens Agency and Social Change
189
Population Food and Freedom
204
IO Culture and Human Rights 227
227
Social Choice and Individual Behavior
249
Individual Freedom as a Social
282
Notes
299
53
318
Copyright

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About the author (1999)

Amartya Sen is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has taught at Calcutta, Delhi, Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Harvard.

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TitleDevelopment as Freedom
Oxford University Press paperback
AuthorAmartya Sen
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, 1999
ISBN0192893300, 9780192893307
Length366 pages
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Business & Economics / Economics / General
Political Science / General
  
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