The concept of freedom and its relation to economic development—a critical appreciation of the work of Amartya Sen
回顾了经济话语中的自由概念，聚焦阿马蒂亚·森从能力分析到将自由分为机会与过程方面的思想演变，并指出其定义中的困难，适合研究自由与发展的学者判断是否阅读原文。
Following a brief review of the conception of freedom as employed in economic discourse, this paper focuses on the evolution of the concept of freedom in the work of Amartya Sen. It traces the development of Sen's thought from the capability analysis of the late 1970s to his more recent separation of freedom into its opportunity and process aspects. While broadly appreciative of Sen's development of the concept of positive freedom, the paper identifies some difficulties arising from his definition of capability as a set of options as well as from his separation of the opportunity and process aspects of freedom. Aspects of the relationship between Sen's conception of freedom and that of Marx are discussed briefly in the context of Sen's recent discussion of the market as a source of freedom. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.