Development As Freedom

Name: Development As Freedom
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ISBN: 9780375406195

ISBN-10: 0375406190

ISBN-13: 9780375406195

Edition: 1999

Authors: Amartyï¿½ Sen

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Development as Freedom is a general exposition of the economic ideas and analyses of Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. This brilliant and indispensable treatise compellingly analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from the perspective of human freedom. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of economic life and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. It is a good to be enjoyed by the world's entire population. Drawing on moral and political philosophy and technical economic analysis, this work gives the nonspecialist reader powerful access to Sen's paradigm-altering vision and vividly shows how he, in the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/21/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Lamont University Professor, Harvard University.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Development as Freedom


The Perspective of Freedom


The Ends and the Means of Development


Freedom and the Foundations of Justice


Poverty as Capability Deprivation


Markets, State and Social Opportunity


The Importance of Democracy


Famines and Other Crises


Women's Agency and Social Change


Population, Food and Freedom


Culture and Human Rights


Social Choice and Individual Behavior


Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment


Notes


Index by Name


Index by Subject