000 01076nam a2200169Ia 4500
020 _a978-0195655265
082 _a330.01 SEN
100 _aSen, Amartya
245 _aDevelopment as freedom
260 _bOxford University Press
_aNew Delhi
_c2010
300 _axvi,366p
_b22 cm ; Pbk
500 _aRs.325/- Indiana Books & Journals
505 _aContents:The 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 _aEconomics
942 _cBK
999 _c98721
_d98721