000 01027nam a2200157Ia 4500
020 _a978-0195655265
100 _aSen, Amartya
245 _aDevelopment as freedom
260 _c2010
_bOxford University Press
_aNew Delhi
300 _axvi,366 p.
_b22 cm ; Pbk
500 _aRs.295/-
505 _aThe perspective of freedom -- The ends and the means of development -- Freedom and the foundations of justice -- Poverty as capability deprivation -- Markets, state and social opportunity -- The importance of democracy -- Famines and other crises -- Women's agency and social change -- Population, food and freedom -- Culture and human rights -- Social choice and individual behavior -- Individual freedom as a social commitment.
520 _aGeneral 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.
650 _aEconomic Development
942 _cBK
999 _c97473
_d97473