Original scientific paper
DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM. POST–ECONOMISM OF AMARTYA SEN
Rade Kalanj
; Faculty of Philosphy, Zagreb
Abstract
Starting from the assertion that economism (economist reduction) is an already common and constant feature of development, the paper presents a specific attempt to transcede the economist reductionism. This idea belongs to the theory of development by the economic theorist and Nobel–prize winner Amartya, who has designed a very elaborated concept of post–economism. Sen defines development as freedom, and differentiates between substantial and instrumental freedoms, while insisting on their mutual empirical connections. Such a concept of development contains all of its fundamental dimensions – from the market and state up to the political and civil freedoms, the importance of democratic institutions and the protective and social real limitations of freedom and democracy. He is yet so much convinced of his fundamental thesis that he decisively asserts that in an order of freedom and democracy not even famine as the most painful challenge of development can be possible.
Keywords
democracy; economism; famine; development; freedom; social arrangements; substantial freedom; market
Hrčak ID:
141742
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Publication date:
15.9.2000.
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