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Sen examines the instrumental role of freedom in development, emphasizing that freedom itself is an essential end of development. He critiques the narrow focus on economic growth and highlights the importance of education, healthcare, and social opportunities in expanding human capabilities.
In Development as Freedom, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen draws on the works of moral philosophers and economists, from Aristotle to Adam Smith, to argue that economic development is about more than increasing wealth—it must be about expanding freedom.
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Summary. Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. 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
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In Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate in economics, presents a compelling argument that development should be seen as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy.
Stating that development often forsakes freedoms and opportunities in the name of economic and human development, Sen argues that freedom must be central to development in order to create sustainable and effective change.
According to Terjesen (2004), Development as Freedom is described as a model for examining development issues economically and politically, rather than as a formula for...
The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of...
