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Development as Freedom
By Amartya Sen
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Description
Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
366
Release Date:
2001-03-18
Publication Date:
2004-01-31
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0192893300
ISBN13:
9780192893307
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
411 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
€8,49