Development as freedom (Record no. 67659)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 195652401
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 338.9 Sen
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Personal name Sen, Amartya.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Development as freedom
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. OUP
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1999
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Extent 366 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Sen explains how, in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people living in rich and poor countries are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedom and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny, or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree.<br/><br/>Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to develop ment by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we should like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis, Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom.<br/><br/>In Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen weaves the most important strands of his recent thinking on economic development, social justice, and human rights into a coherent vision of a better world.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Economic development
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