How long does it take to read Development as Freedom?
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen takes about 6 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 366 pages, about 100,650 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Development as Freedom is a work on international development by the Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. It argues that development is the process of widening the freedoms people enjoy, and it names five instrumental freedoms: political freedoms, economic facilities, social opportunities, transparency guarantees and protective security. Poverty, in this view, means the absence of some of these freedoms, so development cannot be reduced to raising incomes or average earnings. It needs overlapping mechanisms that gradually extend the range of freedoms people can exercise. Freedom is presented as both the goal of development and a means of reaching it.
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Subjects: Social aspects, Economic development, Liberty, Economic conditions, Social aspects of Economic development, Free enterprise
