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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具体描述
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.
Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
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##可是更多的時候覺得他在迴避問題，例如提到自由是目標也是手段，提到自由是衡量發展的標準，可就是沒有正面回答當只能二選一的時候也怎麼辦，而且也沒有在宏觀層面的自由與微觀層面的自由做出明顯區分......可在講到 how much money can take us to immortality 的時候真覺得被戳中了....
##Sen描绘了一个理想主义者的愿景，但对凡人来说却太过无力，毕竟众生皆苦，现代社会的发展史，就是普通人被物化、异化，成为少数精英阶级牺牲品的历史。
##还是旅途中的阅读速度最快
##折磨了我一个月的书，今天惊喜的发现读！完！了！这么难看的书怎么能不推荐给你们！！！
##好难读。。。。。。。。
##喜欢严谨的论述
##准备aw的时候觉得这本书很多地方分析的非常缜密，尤其是关于unintended consequences那一部分。关于改革开放和三年自然灾害的分析也挺值得一看的
##Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
##还是旅途中的阅读速度最快