Oxford University Press 1999 Hardcover New 382 pages. 9.57x6.42x0.98 inches.

Oxford University Press, Date: 1999. Hardcover. New. 382 pages. 9.57x6.42x0.98 inches. 1999. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198297580 9780198297581 [GB]

Oxford University Press 1999 Hardcover New 382 pages.

ISBN10: 0198297580, ISBN13: 9780198297581, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 1999. UK ed. Hardcover. Amartya Sen is the most respected and well-known economist of his time. Offering an overview of the development process, this book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JFFA; JHBA; JPVH; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 724. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0198297580, ISBN13: 9780198297581, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 1999. UK ed. Hardcover. Amartya Sen is the most respected and well-known economist of his time. Offering an overview of the development process, this book is a synthesis of his thought, viewing economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JFFA; JHBA; JPVH; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 724. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0198297580, ISBN13: 9780198297581, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 382 pages. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0198297580, ISBN13: 9780198297581, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know. Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people living in rich and poor countries are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedom and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. 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 social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like ' and by incorporating individual freedom as a ...
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