Development as Freedom
内容简介
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.
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作者简介
Amartya Sen is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. He has been President of the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has taught at Calcutta, Delhi, Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Harvard.
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目录
Introduction: Development as Freedom
1: The Perspective of Freedom
2: The Ends and the Means of Development
3: Freedom and the Foundations of Justice
4: Poverty as Capability Deprivation
5: Markets, States, and Social Opportunity
6: The Importance of Democracy
7: Famines and Other Crises
8: Women's Agency and Social Change
9: Population, Food and Freedom
10: Culture and Human Rights
11: Social Choice and Individual Behaviour
12: Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment
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读书文摘
在那里，心是无畏的，头也抬得高昂； 在那里，知识是自由的； 在那里，世界还没有被狭小的家园的墙隔成片段； 在那里，话是从真理的深处说出； 在那里，不懈的努力向着“完美”伸臂； 在那里，理智的清泉没有沉积在积习的荒漠之中； 在那里，心灵是受你的指引，走向那不断放宽的思想与行为——进入那自由的天国，我的父呵，让我的国家觉醒起来罢。 ——泰戈尔《吉檀迦利》诗35
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