Development as Freedom

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

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• Can equal resources leave people with unequal freedoms?

  coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

  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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