Development as Freedom

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Amartya Sen

页数:382

出版时间:2001-1-18

价格:GBP 11.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780192893307

具体描述

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen 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 freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom.

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.

目录信息

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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读后感

很久以前看过这本书，囫囵吞枣，根本没抓到要点。近来想把自己读过的书再重新过一遍，随后一捻，就是MR.SEN。 但还没翻完第一章就不想继续了，回到目录页，挑着读了几节还感兴趣的主题，这本书就该放下了吧。 要说这本书的干货，其实就是SEN的几个观点。 1、自由是发展的目...  

搁下这本书，先说让我印象最深而最不重要的两点，一是翻译的不符合中文习惯，佶屈聱牙，感觉在读英文复合长句一口气不喘。二是非常想读哈耶克，作者在书中频频提及，批判性的引用勾起我极大兴趣。 在这本书里，我少有地看到了一位经济学家的人文关怀精神，这说明了理性客观的社...  

mujun 发表于 2008-10-01 19:16:40 每个礼拜三的下午都累得要死要活。两点钟开始先上三个小时的development study，课堂讨论加两个教授同时讲课非常不合作地把你往不同的方向拉。然后一个guest talk，你要知道这个叫做guest talk，不叫lecture，再大牌的学者跑过来都很casual...  

搁下这本书，先说让我印象最深而最不重要的两点，一是翻译的不符合中文习惯，佶屈聱牙，感觉在读英文复合长句一口气不喘。二是非常想读哈耶克，作者在书中频频提及，批判性的引用勾起我极大兴趣。 在这本书里，我少有地看到了一位经济学家的人文关怀精神，这说明了理性客观的社...  

阿马蒂亚·森在《以自由看待发展》一书中提出一种特别的发展观，即：自由是发展的首要目的和不可缺少的重要手段，因而对自由这一内涵丰富且饱受争议的概念提供了一种新的理解：“（自由）应该是一个人选择有理由珍视的生活的实质自由——即可行能力。”[[1]]森提出的发展观是否...  

用户评价

最近一直在苦读这本书啊，有一门课占60分的考试内容是这本书的review。。。伤不起啊！！！！

吐槽他是我和黄黄的日常乐趣之一，跳出经济学的分析框架扯上社会发展也是充分体现印度人的人精性格了。得个和平奖还说得过去，居然拿了经济学奖，我是真的给这群圣母跪了。

第一遍完成 我知道还要再读第二遍的

第一遍完成 我知道还要再读第二遍的

最近一直在苦读这本书啊，有一门课占60分的考试内容是这本书的review。。。伤不起啊！！！！