Development as Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780192893307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 366 str.

Amartya Sen

Opis

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 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 and its thousand charms to the unfree citizens.

Recenzje

an enjoyable, unusual and important contribution John Mulqueen, Irish Times 02/02/01

O autorze

Amartya Sen is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has taught at Calcutta, Delhi, Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Harvard.