Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen

Development as Freedom by Amartya SenBy the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm altering framework for understanding economic developmentfor both rich and poorin the twenty first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical,

reeking of mothballs

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska

Written in the best traditions of flânerie

is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage

This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules

dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness

a young woman in Tokyo who struggles with a cluttered apartment

merely patches the old

he decided to write a letter to God

told with both humor and poignancy

What happened to Joe

But as they pass a certain walled garden they come across a drunken singer