Development as Freedom

“Fascinating… . The overall argument [is] eloquent and probing.” –The New York Times“A new approach … refreshing, thoughtful, and human. Sen’s optimism and no-nonsense proposals leave one feeling that perhaps there is a solution.” –Business Week“The … perspective that Mr. Sen describes and advocates has great attractions. Chief among them is that, by cutting through the sterile debate for or against the market, it makes it easier to ask sharper questions about public policy.” –The Economist

Amartya Sen is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, a distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science.