DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM AMARTYA SEN NOBEL PRIZE PHILOSOPHY INDIAN ECONOMIST 2001

Description: DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM AMARTYA SEN 2001 INDIAN ECONOMIST NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE IN 1998 PHILOSOPHER Heavily footnoted, indexed and illustrated, this book about international development has slight edge wear on cover, tiny corner bump lower right cover, very slight spine slope. Very Good condition from estate buyout of psychiatrist who read widely and took care of books. He had not read this one. I was first to open and I did so carefully only to take photos. I was, however, amused to see that Oxford made a typo on copyright page in their own name “Oxford University Presss.” Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali) was born Nov. 3, 1933. The Indian economist and philosopher has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and USA since 1972. Sen has contributed to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries. He taught Economics and Philosophy at Harvard and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. In 2012, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier. Sen says development is the process of expanding human freedom. It is “the enhancement of freedoms that allow people to lead lives that they have reason to live.” A central idea is that freedom is both the end and a means to development. A key observation is that “no famine has ever taken place in a functioning democracy." Shipped via USPS Media Mail

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