Development as freedom / Amartya Sen.
Development as freedom / Amartya Sen.
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New York : Knopf, 1999.
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Date
1999.
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N330.01/ 25
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English
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xvi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Development as Freedom -- 1. The Perspective of Freedom -- 2. The Ends and the Means of Development -- 3. Freedom and the Foundations of Justice -- 4. Poverty as Capability Deprivation -- 5. Markets, State and Social Opportunity -- 6. The Importance of Democracy -- 7. Famines and Other...
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Publisher
New York : Knopf, 1999.
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1st. ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1999.
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"Development as Freedom is a general exposition of the economic ideas and analyses of Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. This treatise analyzes the nature of contemporary economic development from the perspective of human freedom. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of economic life and the m...
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Development as freedom / Amartya Sen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N330.01/ 25
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74VvEVlVv8Ld
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0375406190 (alk. paper)
9780375406195 (alk. paper)
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330.01
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991011646729702626
