In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and rem
【作者简介】
Amartya Sen is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has taught at Calcutta, Delhi, Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Harvard.
【目录】
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, States, and Social Opportunity 6: The Importance of Democracy 7: Famines and Other Crises 8: Women's Agency and Social Change 9: Population, Food and Freedom 10: Culture and Human Rights 11: Social Choice and Individual Behaviour 12: Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment
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