以自由看待发展

简介

Sen gave the lectures on which the book is based at the World Bank in 1996–97 and published it in 1999, a year after receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Against measuring development by income growth alone, he proposes the expansion of people’s “capabilities” – what they are actually able to do and to be. Political freedoms, economic facilities, social opportunities, transparency and protective security reinforce one another. Among his best-known theses is that no substantial famine has occurred in a functioning democracy with a free press. The book also deals with the agency of women, with markets and with the relation between human rights and cultural difference.

联系

承接了

• 国富论1776 · 亚当·斯密

批评了

• 正义论1971 · 约翰·罗尔斯

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• 正义的前沿2006 · 玛莎·努斯鲍姆

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