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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 330 EAN: 9780385720274 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0385720270 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: August 15, 2000 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: August 15, 2000 Studio: Anchor Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Book On Development TheoryDevelopment as Freedom dives into the concept that both the result and mechanism of development is the growth of actual freedoms that people enjoy. It is no good to be rich slave. The book dives headfirst into various development theories that both support and oppose this idea and Amartya Sen navigates them all with ease. He does a great job explaining varying economic theories to someone like me who has no economic background. If you are interested in international development work ... Read More Rating: - The focus on freedomAmartya Sen's book answers a question that current development practices beg: Development for the sake of what? He provides grounding for his claim that freedom is both the process to vibrant development, and the goal. Sen distinguishes his speculative new approach on economic development, from the most traditional: * Approaches that focus their attention in achieving some levels in development's proxy variables - per capita income; income distribution and poverty levels ... Read More Rating: - Serious book on Development theoryIf you only have a passing interest in development theory, you may find this book terribly boring and hard to read. Certainly, he doesn't go out of his way to be entertaining. But if you are looking for real innovation in thought and discussion on this issue, then this book is a must read. It really added a new voice to the discussion of international development, and is oft cited and referred to in papers on the topic. If you want to get up to speed on the modern debate on ... Read More Rating: - A great thesis on the real purpose of economicsThis is a good book by great economist. But, if you are not an economist, like me, you may suffer a bit through the general discussion on economic philosophies through the first few chapters. Once into the later part of the book where modern case studies and data illustrate his point, I found his argument very deep and interesting. Amartya Sen chooses to describe poverty not as a lack of resources, but as a lack of freedoms. Those freedoms include choosing where to live and work, with whom ... Read More Rating:  - Such good ideas... such poor writingNobel Prize winner Amartya Sen strikes a beautiful balance here between socialists, who have their hearts in the right place but refuse to accept that the market is the best way to help people, and libertarians who believe in freedom but don't acknowledge that being poor limits your freedom as well. Hailing from India, Sen's focus is on development economics with a view on helping the world's poorest. At the centerpiece of Sen's philosophy is freedom: He believe that freedom of action and life ... Read More |
