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Development as freedom /

By: Sen, Amartya Kumar.
Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2000Description: xvi, 366 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780385720274; 9780385720274:.Subject(s): Economic development | Development economics | Liberty | Economic development -- Social aspects | Developing countries -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 330.01
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: This study explores how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people in the Third World are still unfree, and remain imprisoned by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or authoritarianism.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 330.01 SEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0051596
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-351) and index.

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.

This study explores how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people in the Third World are still unfree, and remain imprisoned by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or authoritarianism.

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