TY - BOOK AU - Sen,Amartya TI - Development as freedom SN - 0385720270 AV - HD75 .S455 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Economic development KW - Liberty KW - Economics KW - Social history KW - Freedom KW - Social Conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-351) and index; 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/2002145 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/99031061.html UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/Doc?id=2002145 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/99031061.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/99031061.html ER -