Development as Freedom
by Amartya Sen · first published 1999
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Development as Freedom is a 1999 book about international development by Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. The American edition of the book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.
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Freedom is spending more time seeking pleasure than avoiding pain. Very interesting definition. Thanks for sharing that. It vaguely reminds me of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom, in which he explores how the right to certain opportunities may be as essential to freedom as the right to property. The connection may only be superficial, but that was a good book too. (Sen was a…
on “Hey, Guys, It's Totally Okay If You Don't Get Rich” ↗…Herbert- I'm one of the few people on Earth who enjoys the David Lynch adaptation so I finally had to get around to reading the book. Kind of awkward stylistically and structurally but a lot of fun. Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen - It's seemed to me that there are political philosophies that focus on economic needs and those that focus on personal freedom. This is the best I've read at uniting those concepts. Surely…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗The idea of measuring well-being comes at least in part from the work of the economist Amartya Sen, whose most famous work is his book Development As Freedom. Sen's work, in turn, has its philosophical ground in the work of Martha Nussbaum on "capability based ethics". The capabilities approach, by keeping things local, tries to avoid requiring that different…
on “We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity” ↗…stated their population, can't afford to pay for the food. Exact example would be during the Irish famine Ireland was still exporting food the GB as they were able to pay for it. Got the example from "Development as Freedom" [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Development-as-Freedom-Amartya-Sen/dp...
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