Supreme Happiness and Freedom as Supreme Development: Marx, Gandhi, Schumacher and Sen

Kartik Roy

Chapter 8 in Governance Institutions and Economic Development:Emerging China, India, East Asia and Brazil, 2018, pp 383-427 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The following sections are included:IntroductionLong-Term View of Material HappinessCaste-Based Social Status, Unfreedom and Unhappiness in IndiaBirth Status, Marital Status, Unfreedom and UnhappinessRationalizing Irrational Behavior to Achieve HappinessGandhi’s View on Poverty; Human Happiness and FreedomThe Essence of Gandhi’s Plan for Non-Violent DevelopmentIs the Task of Employing People in the Production of Physical and Service Based Easy? Schumacher on Labor and EmploymentThe Formative Stage of Development of Sen’s PhilosophySen on Poverty, Happiness and FreedomGoing Back to GandhiSerious Implication of the Acceptance of “Easy Way Path”More on Political Democracy and Economic FreedomPerceptions of Human Happiness and FreedomSupreme Happiness, Supreme Freedom and DevelopmentGandhi’s Development PhilosophySupreme Happiness and Supreme Freedom

Keywords: Governance; Economic Development; India; Brazil; Indonesia; China; Japan; South Korea; Singapore; Vietnam; Thailand; Malaysia; Developmental Economic; Interventionalist States; Virtuous; Vicious (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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