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Amartya Sen Says Development Follows Expanding Freedoms 237.0

Posted by m beduya on July 30, 2010 · 8 Comments

Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics, is one of the most eminent development economists today. In his book, Development as Freedom (1999, Anchor), Professor Sen quotes Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics in justifying why he believes freedom is more important than wealth as the true object and subject of development: “wealth is evidently [...]

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