What I take from Sen is the ethics of metabolic development. Freedom is a function of access to energy and information. Capability is metabolism.
How the word moved
I first quoted him in February 2025, through his preface to Hirschman. By December 2025 he'd become the ethical half of metabolic development, with Hirschman as the strategic half.
In my words
"Sen reminds us that capability is metabolism."
from Bhumics. Weekly Planet #17: The Strategy of Metabolic Development, 15 Dec 2025
Related
- Related Metabolic Development - he gives it its ethics.
- Related Albert Hirschman - my paired heroes of development.