Volume 48, Number 5 · March 29, 2001
The Road Upward
By Paul Seabright
Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen
Anchor, 366 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, has spent most of his career worrying about how to understand, measure, and promote 'human development,' in the sense of the term that refers to the general condition of the people and not the achievements of a fortunate few. He is probably best known for his work with Jean Drèze on famines and how to prevent them, but his work covers a very broad range. He has worked in social choice theory, a technical discipline that examines the precise relationship between judgments about what is good for society and judgments about what is good for its individual members.
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