Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen is the most respected and well-known economist of his time. This book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, and political structures, Professor Sen gives a stimulating and enlightening overview of the development process. His compassionate yet rigorous analysis will appeal to all those interested in the fate of the developing world, from general reader to specialist.

This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, and political structures, Professor Sen provides a useful overview of the development process.

Amartya Sen has made several key contributions to research on fundamental problems in welfare economics. By combining tools from economics and philosophy, he has restored an ethical dimension to the discussion of vital economic problems.

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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.

Inhalt

• Introduction: Development as Freedom

• 1: The Perspective of Freedom

• 2: The Ends and the Means of Development

• 3: Freedom and the Foundations of Justice

• 4: Poverty as Capability Deprivation

• 5: Markets, States, and Social Opportunity

• 6: The Importance of Democracy

• 7: Famines and Other Crises

• 8: Women's Agency and Social Change

• 9: Population, Food and Freedom

• 10: Culture and Human Rights

• 11: Social Choice and Individual Behaviour

• 12: Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment