Development as Freedom
by Amartya Sen
Recommended by Max Roser and Sarah Taber
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Development Economics, Economic Development, and Finance.
By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigmaltering 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 popula...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Development Economics, Economic Development, and Finance.
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Max Roser
“Currently listening to Amartya Sen's "Development as Freedom" and 1) OUTSTANDING. Like economics that value human life & shit Amartya Sen's got you covered. 2) As someone doing book edits rn it is incredibly healing. My man takes forever to say things & it's still great | Some are asking me here about my views on different aspects of development goals. My view is pretty much the view of Amartya Sen as he lays it out in Development as Freedom. If you haven?t read it yet, I really recommend it. It is the book that made me want to study economics. | Some are asking me here about my views on different aspects of development goals. My view is pretty much the view of Amartya Sen as he lays it out in Development as Freedom. If you haven’t read it yet, I really recommend it. It is the book that made me want to study economics.”
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