Amartya Sen: Nobel Lecture

Social choice, capabilities and the evaluation of development. Distinguish resources from the real opportunities people have to use them.

How to study this source

• Can equal resources leave people with unequal freedoms?

  coreOpening third of the Nobel Lecture; record the argument rather than the award biography.

  Social choice, capabilities and the evaluation of development. Distinguish resources from the real opportunities people have to use them.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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