Friday, October 10, 2008

Development as Freedom

what exactly is being defined as freedom in this article? health care and education seem to have something to do with it. development apparently is what will bring us to freedom, yes? here are some quotes:

"... this limitation can be substantially avoided by examining the demands of efficiency in terms of individual freedoms, rather than just utilities" (p. 118). what are these individual freedoms?

"... recurrent bearing and rearing of children can be very detrimental to the well-being and freedom of the young mother" (p.144). here, is freedom mobility? freedom from the demands of childcare?

"... the remedy has to lie in more freedom -- including that of public discussion and participatory political decisions. Once again, freedom of one kind (in this case, political freedom) can be seen as helping the realization of freedom of other kinds (particularly, that of economic openness)" (p.123). how will this happen and what will this look like?

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