Bibliograph

Development as freedom, Amartya Sen

Type

Label

Development as freedom, Amartya Sen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-342) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Development as freedom

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographyindexesdictionaries

Oclc number

773361899

Responsibility statement

Amartya Sen

Summary

"General exposition of the economic ideas and analyses of Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. This treatise analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from the perspective of human freedom". -- Jacket

Table Of Contents

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

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