Liberty limited? A sympathetic re-engagement with Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 46, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 68-76

  Selwyn, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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