Who is the author of the book 'Development as Freedom'?
Amartya Sen
The question asks who authored the book 'Development as Freedom'.
'Development as Freedom' (1999) is an influential work of development economics arguing that development should be understood as a process of expanding the real freedoms and capabilities that people enjoy, rather than being measured only by income or GDP growth.
It was written by Amartya Sen, the Indian economist and philosopher who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory.
Durjoy Datta and Vivek Shanbhag are contemporary fiction writers, the latter known for the novel 'Ghachar Ghochar', and are not connected with this economics text.
Bhisham Sahni was a Hindi novelist and playwright famous for 'Tamas', a work on Partition, again unrelated to 'Development as Freedom'.
Hence the author of 'Development as Freedom' is Amartya Sen.
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