<p>In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its 'thousand charms' to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and the most efficient means of realizing general welfare. Social institutions like markets, political parties, legislatures, the judiciary, and the media contribute to development by enhancing individual freedom and are in turn sustained by social values. Values, institutions, development, and freedom are all closely interrelated, and Sen links them together in an elegant analytical framework. By asking 'What is the relation between our collective economic wealth and our individual ability to live as we would like?' and by incorporating individual freedom as a social commitment into his analysis Sen allows economics once again, as it did in the time of Adam Smith, to address the social basis of individual well-being and freedom.</p>

Development as Freedom

Business & Money

Economics

Oxford University Press, USA

Biostatistics

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co

<p>Discrete Mathematical Structures teaches students the mathematical foundations of computer science, including logic, Boolean algebra, basic graph theory, finite state machines, grammars, and algorithms. This required class for Computer Science students helps them understand mathematical reasoning for reading, comprehension, and construction of mathematical arguments.</p>

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MALIK

Mathematics

Course Technology, Inc.

This guide is a collection of Congressional Quarterly reporting, as published in the last six months in the CQ Weekly and related CQ publications. The articles cover topics such as elections 2000, Congress and the nation 2001, politics and public policy and foundations of American government.

Cq's Guide to Current American Government: Fall 2001

Politics & Social Sciences

Jeffords

Politics & Government

Cq Pr

The present book deals with a detailed account of a number of plants of economic importance and contains a large amount of information pertaining to them.

Economic Botany

NCBA

Knowledge Truth and Ralism: Essays in Philosophical Analysis

Pranab Kumar

Philosophy

Munshiram

Hidden Faces and Unseen Corners - A Tribute to Indian Tribes

Arts & Photography

Penaki

Photography & Video

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