Development As Freedom
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Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 030787429X |
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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. 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 restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2001-01-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780192893307 |
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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.
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0198297580 |
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The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its thousand charms to the unfree citizens. The author explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people living in the Third World 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.
Author | : Amartya Sen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 2004-03-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674013513 |
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Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.
Author | : Janna Miletzki |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351350404 |
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Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. He says people tend to think of freedoms as economic (the freedom to enter into market exchanges) or political (the freedom to vote and be an active citizen), and tries to understand why the definition has been so narrow hitherto. He concludes that an evaluation of true freedom must necessarily include the freedom to access social services such as healthcare, sanitation and nutrition, just as much as it must acknowledge economic and political freedoms. Evaluating the relevance of the current thinking behind development, Sen’s concludes that the term ‘freedom’ cannot simply be about income. In many ways, measuring income does not account for various “unfreedoms” (manmade or natural bars to wellbeing) that hinder development. Sen’s evaluation is all the more powerful for its clarity: "The freedom-centered perspective has a generic similarity to the common concern with ‘quality of life."
Author | : Séverine Deneulin |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 184407806X |
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First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : S. Deneulin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006-01-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230627250 |
Download The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The book examines the extent to which Amartya Sen's conception of 'development as freedom' can be a guide for development policy. It argues that the theoretical foundations of the conception need to be expanded, and that it needs to give more attention to collective and historical dimensions if it is to address poverty effectively.
Author | : Bertil Tungodden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 9788290584998 |
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Author | : Ingrid Robeyns |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2017-12-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1783744243 |
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How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpretation, arguing that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking. This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach, new readers looking for an interdisciplinary introduction, and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.
Author | : Constanze Binder |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2019-03-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9402416153 |
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In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development. Far from leading to the adoption of a value-neutral approach, however, ascribing importance to freedom’s agency value requires one to adopt a refined value-based approach. Binder employs an axiomatic framework in order to develop such an approach. She shows that a focus on freedom’s agency value has far reaching consequences for existing results in the freedom ranking literature: it requires one to move beyond a person’s given all-things-considered preferences to the values underlying a person’s preference formation. Furthermore, it requires, as Binder argues, one to account (only) for those differences between choice options which really matter to people. Binder illustrates the implications of her analysis for the evaluation of public policy and human development with the capability approach: only if sufficient importance is ascribed to freedom’s agency value can the capability approach keep its promises.