Development As Freedom

Development As Freedom

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Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 366
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195655265

Description

This book develops elegantly, compactly, and yet broadly the concept that economic development is in its nature an increase in freedom. It is a personal manifesto, a summing-up; a blend of vision, close argument, reflection and reminiscence.

Sen proposes a theory of global economic development that is powerful, grand, and eloquently simp0le at the same time. He provides a framework for thought rather than a formula for reform. He is quietly revolutionary in insisting that we keep our eye on the ultimate objectives rather than on the intervening instrumental variables.

By historical examples, empirical evidence, and forceful and rigorous analysis, he shows how development, broadly and properly conceived, cannot be antagonistic to liberty but consists precisely in its increase.

Excerpts from Reviews:

Economics meets philosophy in this wide-ranging manifesto that identifies freedom as the agent of universal development as well as its goal. - Kirkus Reviews

Sen's basic message - informed, insightful, compassionate, and optimistic - does shine through, a summary of the work still very much in progress of one o9f the most important thinkers of our time. - The Nation

By historical examples, empirical evidence, and forceful and rigorous analysis, Sen shows how development, broadly and properly conceived, cannot be antagonistic to liberty but consists precisely in its increase. - Kenneth J Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economic Science

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction : Development as Freedom

CHAPTER I
The Perspective of Freedom

CHAPTER II
The Ends and the Means of Development

CHAPTER III
Freedom and the Foundations of Justice

CHAPTER IV
Poverty as Capability Deprivation

CHAPTER V
Markets, States and Social Opportunity

CHAPTER VI
The Importance of Democracy

CHAPTER VII
Famines and Other Crises

CHAPTER VIII
Women's Agency and Social Change

CHAPTER IX
Population, Food and Freedom

CHAPTER X
Culture and Human Rights

CHAPTER XI
Social Choice and Individual Behavior

CHAPTER XII
Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment

Notes
Index