“amartya sen”

India is a large and very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outli... More

Sen introduces and analyses the entitlement approach' and applies it to the case studies of four famines from different parts of the world, concluding with a look at general issues of deprivation related to entitlement systems. How severe is poverty? Wh... More

Focusing on the inter-relationship between institutions, technology, and employment, the author investigates the institutional factors which affect policy-making: modes of production, patterns of ownership, and systems of employment.... More

This major philosophical work, by one of the world's leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might be, but from what the results of a system are practically, in the world. It highlights the impor... More

The world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before, yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues in this sweeping philosophical work that its brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Sen argues in his new book that conflict and violence are sustained today, no ... More

India is a large and very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outlin... More