Presented by-

Dr. Sachin KhallalDy. Collector (pro)

About the book Name-   Development as freedom  Author- Amartya Sen Language- English Pages- 366 Publisher- Oxford University Press,

New York ISBN 9780198297581

‘Mother Teresa of Economics’

 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.

Family

Nandana sen

What is devlopment?

GNP? Industrialisation? Social modernisation? Or….

Is it something else???

The Eternal Question

“यद नु� मां� इय सर्वा� पृ�थ्र्वा� विर्वात्ते�नु पृ�र्णा� स्य�त कथं त�नु अम्रत� स्य�मां ?”

Maitreyi and Yajnyawalkya(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2:3)

Hey honey…

Can wealth guarantee

happiness ???

Noooo way, babe

!

Maitreyi

Yajnyawalkya

‘Unfreedom’

Social opportunities

Economic

facilities

Protective securi

ty

Transparnc

y guarantees

Political

particiption

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’

Critic Economic philosophy- - Human development as a

luxury - Lee thesis

Literary style -Very complex writing style

Normative concerns - Descriptive, not prescriptive

Stregths

Central idea –

‘Devlopment as the expansion of human freedoms’

Who should read the book Policy makers Government officersStudents of economics Civil service aspirants

THANK YOU!!!

Questions

What was the

presentation about, anyways ?