Development as Freedom
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First published in 1999, Development as Freedom is a book focused on international development and written by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen.
Some of the topics of this book:
- Development is the expansion of capabilities... having the freedom to choose between different ways of thinking.
- The enrichment of human lives.
- Being able to choose how you want to live.
Amartya Sen is an Indian-born Cambridge economist who won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1998. He was praised by the Nobel Committee for bringing an "ethical dimension" to a field recently dominated by technical specialists. Based on the example of the former Soviet Union, Sen argued that political liberties are necessary for sustainable development. He also tackled the paradox of the Chinese hare and the Indian tortoise in terms of economic growth, pointing to the fact that China had invested in general literacy and basic health before opening its economy in 1979,
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while the "socialist regime" in India in the 1960s and 70s neglected those very areas in pursuit of full nationalisation under the license Raj. While Indian democratic processes can be painfully slow, they provide a firmer guarantee of stable growth in the long run. Sen demolished the notion that a specific set of "Asian values" exists that might provide a justification for authoritarian regimes.
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Osberg, Lars. "Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom" in Comptes Rendus. Available on-line at http://www.isuma.net/v01n02/osberg/osberg_e.pdf
Peligal, Rona. Review of Development as Freedom. Human Rights Watch, 1999. Review on-line. Available at http://www.hrw.org/community/bookreviews/sen.htm
Tungodden, Bertil. A Balanced View of Development as Freedom. Chr. Michelson Institute Working Papers Series. Available on-line at http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/?953=a-balanced-view-of-development-as-freedom
