Author | Amartya Sen |
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Language | English |
Subject | International development |
Publication date | 1999 |
Media type |
- The Bottom Billion
- Amartya Sen Development As Freedom
- Development Is Freedom
- Sen Development As Freedom Summary
Development, therefore, aims at freedom using the very exercise of free human agency as the very means to achieve it. Freedom, in Sen’s mind, is a “multilayered” term.3 He calls constitutive freedom that which provides the individual the capability to act as an agent. Our Summary of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. In 'Development as Freedom,' Sen challenges traditional notions for a more aggressive campaign that helps the world's undeveloped and poorest nations. The individuals' capability affects how they view 'opportunity.' By the end of 'Development as Freedom,' readers will gain insight.
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- Development as Freedom is a popular summary of economist Amartya Sen's work on development. In it he explores the relationship between freedom and development, the ways in which freedom is both a basic constituent of development in itself and an enabling key to other aspects.
Development as Freedom is a 1999 book about international development by Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen.
The Bottom Billion
The American edition of the book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Background[edit]
Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.[1] Development as Freedom was published one year later and argues that development entails a set of linked freedoms:
- political freedoms and transparency in relations between people
- freedom of opportunity, including freedom to access credit; and
- economic protection from abject poverty, including through income supplements and unemployment relief.
Poverty is characterized by lack of at least one freedom (Sen uses the term unfreedom for lack of freedom), including a de facto lack of political rights and choice, vulnerability to coercive relations, and exclusion from economic choices and protections.
Based on these ethical considerations, Sen argues that development cannot be reduced to simply increasing basic incomes, nor to rising average per capita incomes. Rather, it requires a package of overlapping mechanisms that progressively enable the exercise of a growing range of freedoms. A central idea of the book is that freedom is both the end and a means to development.
Amartya Sen Development As Freedom
Canadian social scientist Lars Osberg wrote about the book: 'Although Development as Freedom covers immense territory, it is subtle and nuanced and its careful scholarship is manifest at every turn.'[2]Kenneth Arrow concluded 'In this book, Amartya Sen develops elegantly, compactly, and yet broadly the concept that economic development is in its nature an increase in freedom.'
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Development Is Freedom
- ^'The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998'. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^Osberg, Lars. 'Development as Freedom'(PDF). Comptes Rendus.
Further reading[edit]
- Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as freedom (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198297581.
- Sen, Amartya (2001). Development as freedom (2nd ed.). Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780192893307.
- Tungodden, Bertil (2001). A balanced view of development as freedom. Bergen, Norway: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Working Paper Series). ISBN978-8290584998.Pdf version.
- Sandbrook, Richard (December 2000). 'Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine'. Third World Quarterly. 21 (6): 1071–1080. doi:10.1080/01436590020012052.
Sen Development As Freedom Summary
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