DEVELOPMENT as FREEDOM: By Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College,Cambridge and the winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science. He has experience with UNDP and Harvard Institute of International Development.
Sen has focused on the well-being of those at the bottom of society not the efficiency of those at the top. The concept of human rights and political liberty are now very much a part of the prevailing rhetoric. This is so not only in the field of trade and communication, but also in terms of interactive ideas and ideals. Overcoming the problems of environment and to the sustainability of economics and social lives. Leaders in USA and in China are trying the exercise of development to counteract affliction such as poverty in particular.
The linkages of economic and political freedoms help to reinforce one another as Olympics in Beijing, rather than being hostile to one another(as they are taken to be by some) Opportunities of education and health care which require public action in Tibet have been taken care of by the empirical evidence (CCTV-4). Such coherent and cogent freedom is the perspective of the process of development in China. Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom: poverty,poor economic opportunity,intolerance( racial discrimination) Such violation of freedom resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be resonated by philsopher Aristotle many decades ago: There is no hope of immortality by wealth(Cf. Indian Sanskrit around 8th century B.C.) The Chinese expression would be:"Shengbudailai,sibudaiqu" Here is the common ground(Jichu) of the higher level ethics and economics.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a student in philosophy of life in economics. April 20, 2008
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