Amartya Sen’s Work Shows Us the Human Cost of Capitalist Development — Benjamin Selwyn

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What happens when capital (ownership, property accumulation, "growth") is favored over the other factors of production, labor (workers, people, welfare) and land (the environment, ecology). Developing Economics Amartya Sen’s Work Shows Us the Human Cost of Capitalist DevelopmentBenjamin Selwyn, professor of international relations and international development at the University of Sussex.RelatedTax Research UKAnyone who seriously thinks GDP measures prove that the country is succeeding economically is seriously economically deludedGDPFlatliningRichard Murphy | Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London; Director of Tax Research UK; non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, and a member of the Progressive Economy Forum

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