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Introduction

In: Acquisition of Technological Capability in Small Firms in Developing Countries

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  • Henny Romijn

    (University of Oxford
    Tilburg University)

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In his Commodities and Capabilities (1985a), Amartya Sen argues that economic development should be viewed first and foremost as a process of expansion of people’s capabilities.1 The common practice of focusing on the growth of national production, he points out, may only too easily lead to a commodity-centred approach in which economic progress is pursued as an end in itself rather than as a means towards the higher objective of enriching human life. After all, the quality of human life is not determined by the commodities that people are instrumental in producing; nor is it determined by the goods that they receive —for instance as part of a basic-needs package. Rather, what matters is what people are capable of being, or doing, with the goods to which they have access.

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  • Henny Romijn, 1999. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Acquisition of Technological Capability in Small Firms in Developing Countries, chapter 1, pages 1-8, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-38980-9_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230389809_1
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