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Development as Freedom
In your plan: Week 50, Fri, 1 Oct 2027.
Study guide
The full study guide for this topic is being prepared. Meanwhile, here is the curator's guide below.
Curator's notes
- Why it matters
- Development means expanding real capabilities, not only income. India's tradition of public reasoning.
- Use in training and coaching
- Capability approach to designing skill programmes for students and youth
- Connects to
- Smith; Rawls; Mill
- What to read
- Development as Freedom ch. 1–2
- Text (date)
- Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom; The Argumentative Indian (1999, 2005)
- Also in Modern political thought: Idea or text
- Development as Freedom; Identity and Violence
- Also in Modern political thought: Author (date)
- Amartya Sen (1999, 2006)
- Also in Modern political thought: Core argument
- Freedom as capability; people hold many identities, not one
- Also in Modern political thought: Use for you
- Counter to divisive identity politics
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