![]() ![]() ![]() As the global political economy moves with ever greater determination toward the implantation of more thoroughly marketized economic relations, analysts must correspondingly focus more closely on how to prevent market-based power inequalities from undermining “development as freedom.” Centralization of power over the cultural flows that shape preferences is a more subtle form of “unfreedom” than those which Sen highlights, but no less powerful for being subtle. Nonetheless, the understanding and pursuit of “development as freedom” must go beyond the arguments he lays out. Sen showed his usual wisdom and astute judgement in keeping his argument carefully focused and, therefore, elegant and compelling. ![]()
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