Development as Freedom (1999)

Amartya Sen

Year:	1999
Authors:	Amartya Sen
Publishers:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Pages:	383
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its thousand charms to the unfree citizens. The author explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedom and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism.