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Development as Freedom

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Description for Development as Freedom Paperback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
382
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192893307
SKU
V9780192893307
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Ref
99-10

About Amartya Sen
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.

Reviews for Development as Freedom
an enjoyable, unusual and important contribution
John Mulqueen, Irish Times 02/02/01
The connecting theme behind these essays is that development is about expanding people's ability to do things that they have a reason to value. The rationale for this is discussed with great force, clarity and consistency.
S.V. Subramanian, Progress in Development Studies 1(1), Jan 01.
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