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Women’s Agency and Social Change, Re-read Saturday, Development as Freedom, Chapter 8, Week 11

The idea of agency plays a central role in Chapter 8 of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. The concept of agency is often misunderstood. Paraphrasing Wikipedia (to make it... Read More

Famines and Other Crises, Re-read Saturday, Development as Freedom, Chapter 7, Week 10

Chapter 7 of  Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen, Famines and Other Crises, examines the impact of freedoms and leadership through the lens of famines and other crises. This chapter... Read More

Social Choice and Individual Behavior, Re-read Saturday, Development as Freedom, Chapter 11, Week 9

The fun part of reading and then rereading a book is knowing what is to come in Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen. I am jumping to Chapter 11 for... Read More

The Importance of Democracy, Re-read Saturday, Development as Freedom, Chapter 6, Week 8

Opening Chapter 6, Sen asks, “Why bother about the finesse of political freedoms given the overpowering grossness of intense economic needs?” If we wanted to boil the chapter down to... Read More

Markets, State, and Social Opportunity, Re-read Saturday, Development as Freedom, Chapter 5, Week 7

Chapter Five of Development as Freedom begins with a phenomenal quote by Huxley from Science and Culture. “It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and... Read More

Poverty as Capability Deprivation, Re-read Saturday, Development as Freedom, Week 6, Chapter 4

In Chapter 4 of Development as Freedom, Sen states that value is generated based on the “freedoms a person enjoys that allows them to lead the life they have reason... Read More