Name: Development As Freedom
ISBN: 9780385720274

Amartya Sen

The 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics states that freedom is the most efficient means of sustaining economic life and securing welfare throughout the world, explaining how his theories can be applied today. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Development As Freedom

Deyana

This book seems to embody "threshold concepts"--concepts/theories in which one cannot further their learning fundamentally in a discipline/subject/topic without passing through this particular "checkpoint." Sen's writing is not always easily understandable, but the candor in the writing makes up for it, and the ideas presented--socioeconomic, political, ethical--illuminate the vital importance of looking at development through interdisciplinary and endogenous means.