About this title: In this scholarly work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist recommends the adoption of integrated socioeconomic policies that view social freedom and economic development as complementary pursuits.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2000-08-15
ISBN-13:9780385720274ISBN:0385720270
Description: Good. 2000. Anchor. Trade Paperback. No prior owner marks. Reading creases on front cover. Light wear and scuffing. Ship same or next day. More Economics books in our store. Matching ISBN. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2000-08-01
ISBN-13:9780385720274ISBN:0385720270
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385720274ISBN:0385720270
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192893307ISBN:0192893300
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 382 pages. (382 pages) this title is a synthesis of the thought of economist amartya sen, who views 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 provides a useful overview of the development process. numerous tables edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Edition: New ed
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192893307ISBN:0192893300
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 195 High by 129 Wide by deep in mm. (382) in development as freedom amartya sen 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 freedoms 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780375406195ISBN:0375406190
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LIBERTY BUSINESS ECONOMICS. Development as Freedom is a general exposition of the economic ideas and analyses of Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. This brilliant and indispensable treatise compellingly analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from the perspective of human freedom. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of economic life and the most efficient ... read more
Binding: HARDBACK
Publisher: Oxford U. P, Oxford
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780198297581ISBN:0198297580
Description: 0198297580 pp366. Very Good in dust-jacket. (The author explains how, in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of pwople in rich and poor countries are still unfree) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780198297581ISBN:0198297580
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234 High by 156 Wide by 26 deep in mm. (382) in development as freedom amartya sen quotes the eighteenth century poet william cowper on freedom: freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves howe'er contented, never know. 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date Published: 14/10/1999
ISBN-13:9780198297581ISBN:0198297580
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ANCHOR
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385720274ISBN:0385720270
Description: New. 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 mean... read more
"Development as Freedom was difficult to get into, but got more and more interesting as Sen progressed from outlining his theory of "development as freedom" to its various applications. His basic theory is that development should be considered in terms of the freedoms people possess AND are able to utilize. He argues that when we focus on increasing freedoms instead of other measures such as growth of per capita GDP, we can get a more complete picture of whether people are living lives that they have reason to value. He then goes on to discuss various development issues within this framework, such as catastrophic events, food production, and overpopulation. One key issue is women's empowerment, for example, he points out that women's literacy is very strongly correlated with decreased fertility. He also points out the value of public discourse. I enjoyed reading about developing countries because I tend to focus on US issues - but I found that expanding my view actually provided some good insight on the US as well as the rest of the world."
"This book formed the basis of an Economics paper that I wrote for my last econ class at Xavier - I really liked it a lot. Its international view provided a different perspective on economics than I think I usually read."
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