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Today, I will capture a few thoughts from our re-read of Development As Freedom. When this book was recommended, I viewed it as a stretch. Developmental economics is not a... Read More
This is the last chapter in Development as Freedom. Next week, we will conclude the re-read with a few thoughts and chart a course for the next book. Thoughts? As... Read More
This chapter of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen explores the “intellectual edifice of human rights.” The concept of human rights is often trotted out almost like a totem in... Read More
Sen begins Chapter 9 of Development as Freedom with the sentence: “The contemporary age is not short of terrible and nasty happenings, but the persistence of extensive hunger in a... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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