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050			_aHD 75 .S46 1999
100			_aSen, Amartya _eauthor
245		0	_aDevelopment as freedom / _cAmartya Sen
260			_aNew York : _bAnchor Books, _cc1999
300			_axvi, 366 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm.
365			_bUSD11.56
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aIntroduction : Development as freedom -- 1. The perspective of freedom -- 2. The ends and the means of development -- 3. Freedom and the foundations of justice -- 4. Poverty as capability deprivation -- 5. Markets, state and social opportunity -- 6. The importance of democracy -- 7. Famines and other crises -- 8. Women's agency and social change -- 9. Population, food and freedom -- 10. Culture and human rights -- 11. Social choice and individual behavior -- 12. Individual freedom as a social commitment
520			_aBy 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.
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