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- Title
The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development--a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen.
- Authors
Prendergast, Renee
- Abstract
Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employed in economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution of the concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It traces the development of Sen's thought from the capability analysis of the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom into its opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciative of Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, the paper identifies some difficulties arising from his definition of capability as a set of options as well as from his separation of the opportunity and process aspects of freedom. Aspects of the relationship between Sen's conception of freedom and that of Marx are discussed briefly in the context of Sen's recent discussion of the market as a source of freedom.
- Subjects
LIBERTY; ECONOMIC development; SEN, Amartya, 1933-; ECONOMIC policy; ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC structure
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2005, Vol 29, Issue 6, p1145
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/bei081