Development As Freedom

Name: Development As Freedom
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ISBN: 9780385720274

ISBN-10: 0385720270

ISBN-13: 9780385720274

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Authors: Amartya Sen

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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



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


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