TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sen,Amartya
TI  - Development as freedom
SN  - 0192893300
AV  - JC585 .S473 2001
U1  - 338.9 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Free enterprise
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Originally published: 1999; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Development as Freedom -- The Perspective of Freedom -- The ends and the Means of Development --  Freedom and the Foundations of Justice --  Poverty as Capability Deprivation -- Markets, States, and Social Opportunity --  The Important 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 -- Notes -- Index
N2  - Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restrain a sense of social accountability
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