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Amartya Sen was the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics. [1] Development as Freedom was published one year later and argues that development entails a set of linked freedoms: political freedoms and transparency in relations between people; freedom of opportunity, including freedom to access credit; and
In Development as Freedom, Sen outlined five specific types of freedoms: political freedoms, economic facilities, social opportunities, transparency guarantees, and protective security. Political freedoms refer to the ability of the people to have a voice in government and to be able to scrutinise the authorities.
Equality of autonomy is a political philosophy concept of Amartya Sen that argues "that the ability and means to choose our life course should be spread as equally as possible across society"—i.e., an equal chance at autonomy or empowerment. [1]
The economic side of Sen's work can best be categorized under welfare economics, which evaluates the effects of economic policies on the well-being of peoples. Sen wrote the influential book Development as Freedom which added an important ethical side to development economics. [17]
Amartya Sen, On Economic Inequality, 1973; Elizabeth S. Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics, 1993; Paul Ormerod, The Death of Economics, 1994; Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, 1999; Steve Keen, Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences, 2001/2011
He credits Rawls for revitalizing the interest in the ideas of what justice means and the stress put on fairness, objectivity, equality of opportunity, removal of poverty, and freedom. However, Sen, as part of his general critique of the contractarian tradition, states that ideas about a perfectly just world do not help redress actual existing ...
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Reed E. Hundt joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -21.5 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Denis Goulet (27 May 1931 – 26 December 2006) [1] was a human development theorist and a founder of work on development ethics as an independent field of study. Goulet's definition of Development Ethics is that it is a field that examines the ethical and value questions related to development theory, planning, and practice.