Development as freedom / Amartya Sen.

By:

Sen, Amartya, 1933-

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York : Knopf, 1999Copyright date: �1999Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 366 p : ill ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0385720270
9780385720274

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HD75 .S455

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-351) and index.

"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.

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