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14 Cards in this Set
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What is a major issue in conceptualizing development?
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The gap between an exclusive concentration on economic wealth and a broader focus in the lives we can lead.
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What determines the usefulness of wealth?
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The usefulness of wealth lies in the things that it allows us to do - the substantive freedoms it helps us achieve.
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Why is the usefullness of wealth neither exclusive nor uniform?
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The relation is neither exclusive (since there are significant influences on our lives other than wealth) nor uniform (since the impact of wealth on our lives varies with other influences).
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What are the benefits of expanding the freedoms that we have reason to value?
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Our lives will be richer and more untettered, it allows us to be fuller social persons, exercising our own volitions and interacting with - and influencing - the world in which we live.
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What is the "Lee thesis"?
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The claim that the denial of political liberty and basic civil rights helps to stimulate economic growth and is "good" for rapid economic development.
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*NOTE*
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Empirical evidence very strongly suggests that economic growth is more a matter of a friendlier economic clmate than of a harsher political system.
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Where do famines tend to occur?
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Famines have tended to occur in colonial territories governed by rulers from elsewhere or in one-party states, or in military dictatorships.
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. |
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What does the view of freedom involve?
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Both the processes that allow freedom of actions and decisions, and the actual opportunities that people have, given their personal and social circumstances.
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How is the success of a society evaluated?
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Primarily by the substantive fredoms that the members of that society enjoy.
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Why is having greater freedom to do the things one has reason to value important?
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1. Significant in itself for the person's overall freedom, and
2. important in fostering the person's opportunity to have valuable outcomes. |
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What is an "agent"?
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An agent is someone who acts and brings about change, and whose achievements can be judged in terms of her own values and objectives, whether or not we assess them in terms of some external criteria as well.
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What does unemployment contribute to?
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Unemployment contributes to the "social exclusion" of some groups, and it leads to losses of self-reliance, self-confidence and psychological and physical health.
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*NOTE
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If a traditional way of life has to be sacrificed to escape grinding poverty or miniscule longevity (as many traditional societies have had for thousands of years), then it is the people directly involved who must have to opportunity to participate in deciding what should be chosen.
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What is the real conflict between cultures?
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1. The basic value that the people mst be allowed to decide freely what traditions they wish or not wish to follow.
2. The insistence that established traditions be followed (no matter what) or, alternatively, people must obey the decisions by religious or secular authorities who enforce traditions - real or imagined. |
