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163 Fahrudin NOVALIĆ (NE)SLOBODA ILI DEMOKRATSKA CENZURA Fahrudin Novalić: Prospective responsible freedom as a condition of development Summary There are two basic accesses in the theoretical-scientific, interdisciplinary dis- cussions about the problems of social development – economism (technocratic access) and postekonomizam (sociocultural access). Economism reduces of social processes on quantitative indicators, including profit, social gross product, natio- nal income, national income per capita . It devalues or eliminates of socio-cultural indicators development – of political, economic and market democracy, the rule of right and law, health and dignity of life, real gender equality, education, ethical, ecological and the others of cultural-anthropological factors. About the distribu- tion and allocation of quantitative indicators, decide powerful individuals, then powerful and networked – political, economic and financial oligarchy. No progress of a nation if it increases only her economic growth, without increasing the quality of life of the entire nation. Prospective responsible freedom, with the others socio- cultural factors of development, is the most effective means for national and global sustainable development. Some prominent economic theorists of development, re- jected the economism (Landes, 1998; Martinussen, 1997; Hirschman, 1958; Sen, 1999). Sen encourages public ethical discourse, he developed a very elaborate con- cept of postekonomism – the theory of global economic development, and defines development as freedom, which is achieved by overcoming real unfreedoms. The followers of socio-cultural approach to social development, besides of the others, are Muhammad Yunus, Philip B. Smith, Manfred Max-Neef, too. Key words: Amartya Sen, conditio humana, development, prospective responsible freedom, subject, vita activa, vita contemplativa