DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM AND THE BICENTENARY OF AMARTYA SEN AS A NOBEL LAUREATE
Keywords:
Amartya Sen, Freedom, DevelopmentAbstract
This essay discusses the book “Development as Freedom” through na exploratory and descriptive study that aims to review and promote a debate on the actual relevance of the analytical and conceptual contributions proposed by the Indian intellectual and activist Amartya Sen two decades after receiving the Nobel Prize of Economics. Based on these discussions this paper presents as a conclusive result that “Development as Freedom” is intentionally characterized as a work of synthesis and self-reference to the thinking consolidated by Amartya Sen himself over decades.
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