Development as Freedom
Development as Freedom is a 1999 book about international development by Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. The American edition of the book was published by Alfred A. Knopf. )
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- Dune by Frank Herbert- I'm one of the few people on Earth who enjoys the David Lynch adaptation so I finally had to get around to reading the book. Kind of awkward stylistically and structurally but a lot of fun.
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen - It's seemed to me that there are political philosophies that focus on economic needs and those that focus on personal freedom. This is the best I've read at uniting those concepts.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - A blast to read and great insight into the thinking of a great mind.
The LA Quartet by James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz) - Really the pinnacle of dark gritty noir. If you like that I can't recommend highly enough.
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - I like a lot of Hammett's other work but this seemed to have a lot of wheel spinning.
City of Quartz by Mike Davis - As an Angeleno this gave me so much insight into the city I love. I have no idea if it would be of any interest to an outsider.
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb - Nassim Taleb is great and I've definitely been influenced a lot by his ideas, but he's getting too in love with the smell of his own farts.
Various books/textbooks on programming and databases - Nothing thrilling in this category. Gotta eat your vegetables.
- Freedom is spending more time seeking pleasure than avoiding pain.
Very interesting definition. Thanks for sharing that.
It vaguely reminds me of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom, in which he explores how the right to certain opportunities may be as essential to freedom as the right to property.
The connection may only be superficial, but that was a good book too. (Sen was a Nobel Prize winner.)
- The idea of measuring well-being comes at least in part from the work of the economist Amartya Sen, whose most famous work is his book Development As Freedom.
Sen's work, in turn, has its philosophical ground in the work of Martha Nussbaum on "capability based ethics".
The capabilities approach, by keeping things local, tries to avoid requiring that different cultures all have the same values as tends to happen with utilitarian approaches and materialism.
1. https://daily-philosophy.com/martha-nussbaum-and-the-capabil...
- I think this is more of an economic issue. Poor countries, or better stated their population, can't afford to pay for the food. Exact example would be during the Irish famine Ireland was still exporting food the GB as they were able to pay for it. Got the example from "Development as Freedom" [1]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Development-as-Freedom-Amartya-Sen/dp...
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