Development as freedom: The spaces of Amartya Sen

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-217

  Corbridge, Stuart ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

authoritarianism; development; difference; freedom; liberalism; spaces of evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996232421     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1464993402ps037ra     Document Type: Article

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