![]() ![]() ![]() Such work is terribly salient, for lives are at stake. By such inspection, the oversights of development theories might be uncovered and corrected. Much of Sen's development writings engage or draw on investigations of this form. The policies, practices, analyses, and measures that guide development institutions can be scrutinized to uncover which truly aim at human freedoms, and how true their aim might be. In approaching development, the chain of exploration can also be reversed. Sen's philosophical writings propose the expansion of human capabilities and freedoms as an objective for social arrangements, and argue that this objective satisfies certain considerations better than Rawlsian primary goods or utility measures. Put differently, human freedom is partly ‘human’-made. ![]() Human capabilities are partly created or undermined by development policies, markets, and other social arrangements. ![]()
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