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Slavery, Freedom, And Sen

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  • Stanley Engerman

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Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom argues that the ability to make choices is fundamental to economic development, and that the evaluation of outcomes can provide misleading answers. He uses the example of the high material consumption of US slaves relative to some free whites to illustrate this contrast. This paper discusses some of the implications of such comparisons and the problem of evaluating what might be regarded as favorable outcomes which come from unfavorable institutions (e.g., slavery). It appears that all good things do not necessarily go together. The past relation of enslavement to the need for subsistence is discussed. Differences in gender roles under slavery and after emancipation are also examined.

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  • Stanley Engerman, 2003. "Slavery, Freedom, And Sen," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(2-3), pages 185-211.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:9:y:2003:i:2-3:p:185-211
    DOI: 10.1080/1354570032000078033
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    1. Dawn Richards Elliott, 2009. "What is the Comparative Advantage of the Service Learning Pedagogy? Insights from Development Economics," Forum for Social Economics, Springer;The Association for Social Economics, vol. 38(2), pages 263-278, July.
    2. Haseeb Shabbir & Michael R. Hyman & Dianne Dean & Stephan Dahl, 2020. "‘Freedom Through Marketing’ Is Not Doublespeak," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 164(2), pages 227-241, June.
    3. Dawn Richards Elliott, 2009. "What is the Comparative Advantage of the Service Learning Pedagogy? Insights from Development Economics," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(2-3), pages 263-278, January.
    4. Shyam J. Kamath, 2007. "The Concept of Equality in Nobel Laureate A. K. Sen's Work: A Critical Assessment," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 23(Fall 2007), pages 116-133.
    5. Jonathan Conning & Michael Kevane, 2005. "Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Contract," Economics Working Paper Archive at Hunter College 408, Hunter College Department of Economics.
    6. Sebastian Silva-Leander, 2011. "On the Possibility of Measuring Freedom: A Kantian Perspective," OPHI Working Papers 49, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.

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