Textbook Discounter: Social Sciences: Development as Freedom

Development as Freedom
	Author: Amartya Sen Publisher: Anchor Category: Book List Price: ~~$16.00~~ Buy New: $9.12 You Save: $6.88 (43%) New (43) Used (38) from $6.88 Rating: 50 reviews Sales Rank: 1930 Media: Paperback Edition: Reprint Pages: 384 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 ISBN: 0385720270 Dewey Decimal Number: 330 EAN: 9780385720274 ASIN: 0385720270 Publication Date: August 15, 2000 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.