Author | Amartya Sen |
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Language | English |
Subject | International development |
Publication date | 1999 |
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Notes on Amartya Sen’s “Development as Freedom” Published in Staff Memos 8-10 (2010), School of Economics, University of Asia and the Pacific, ISSN 0116-3515 The greeting “May you have a prosperous New Year” is always appreciated, for prosperity is something we wish for ourselves and for others. 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 American edition of the book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Development as Freedom is a 1999 book about international development by the economist Amartya Sen. Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel. From this, Sen concludes that real development cannot be reduced to simply increasing basic incomes, nor to rising average per capita incomes. Rather, it requires a package of. Development as Freedom By AMARTYA SEN Knopf. There is a deep complementarity between individual agency and social arrangements. It is important to give simultaneous recognition to the centrality of individual freedom and to the force of social influences on the extent and reach of individual freedom. 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. Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom. This human freedom is both the primary end objective and the principle means of development. In tandem, Sen stresses the need to abolish 'unfreedoms' such as poverty, famine, starvation, undernourishment, tyranny, poor economicopportunities, systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities.
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.
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]
- ^'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.
Development As Freedom Summary Pdf
Further reading[edit]
Amartya Sen Concept Of Development
- 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.
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