Author, Amartya Sen, in this marvellous book defines 'devlopment' as a means to achieve the ultimate goal of 'freedoms' of various types.

1. Presented by-
Dr. Sachin Khallal
Dy. Collector (pro)

2. About the book
 Name- Development as freedom
 Author- Amartya Sen
 Language- English
 Pages- 366
 Publisher- Oxford University Press,
New York
 ISBN 9780198297581

3. ‘Mother Teresa of
Economics’
Nobel
Memorial
Prize in
Economic
Sciences in
1998 for his
work in
welfare
economics.

4. Family
Nandana sen

5. What is devlopment?
GNP?
Industrialisation?
Social modernisation?
Or….
Is it something else???

6. The Eternal Question
“यद नु मवां इयां सर्वा पृथ्र्ी वर्त्तेन पूर्वा
स्यवत कथां तेन अम्रतव स्यवम ?”
Maitreyi and Yajnyawalkya
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2:3)

7. Hey honey…
Can wealth
guarantee
happiness
???
Noooo way,
babe !
Maitreyi
Yajnyawalkya

8. ‘Unfreedom’
Social
opportunities
Economic
facilities
Protective
security
Transparn
cy
guarantee
s
Political
particiption

9. Major Concepts
 Freedom centered understanding of
economics
 Development as the ‘Ability to appear in
public without shame’
 ‘No famine is possible in a functioning
democracy’
 ‘Capability approach’ towards
development
 Corelation between ‘income’ and
‘mortality’
 ‘100 million missing women of Asia’

10. Critic
Economic philosophy-
- Human development as a
luxury
- Lee thesis
Literary style
-Very complex writing style
Normative concerns
- Descriptive, not prescriptive

11. Stregths
 Central idea –
‘Devlopment as the expansion of
human freedoms’

12. Who should read the book
 Policy makers
 Government officers
 Students of economics
 Civil service aspirants

13. THANK YOU!!!

14. Questions What was
the
presentation
about,
anyways ?