Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: lectures, radcliffe, inequality, economic
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1997-03-27
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198281935
ISBN-13: 9780198281931

In this classic text, first published in 1973, Amartya Sen relates the theory of welfare economics to the study of economic inequality. He presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. In his masterful analysis, Sen assesses various approaches to measuring inequality and delineates the causes and effects of economic disparities. Containing the four lectures from the original edition as well as a new introduction, this timeless study is essential reading for economists, philosophers, and social scientists. In a new

Author: Amartya K. Se
Publisher: Oxford University Pre
Keywords: freedom, development
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $20.65
ISBN-10: 0192893300
ISBN-13: 9780192893307

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by economic poverty, social deprivation, political tyranny or cultural authoritarianism. The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its ’thousand charms’ to the unfree citizens. Freedom, Sen persuasively argues, is at once the ultimate goal of social and economic arrangements and t

Author: Amartya Se
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: freedom, development
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-08-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0385720270
ISBN-13: 9780385720274

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world’s entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy,

Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: indian, identity, culture, writings, argumentative, history
Number of Pages: 409
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 031242602X
ISBN-13: 9780312426026

In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India’s intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding these subjects--the nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity, the country’s huge social and economic disparities, and its current place in the world" (Sunil Khilnani, Financial Times, U.K.).

Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: deprivation, entitlement, essay, famines, poverty
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1983-01-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0198284632
ISBN-13: 9780198284635

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.

Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: economics, ethics
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1991-01-15
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0631164014
ISBN-13: 9780631164012

In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that a closer contact between welfare economics and modern ethical studies can substantively enrich and benefit both disciplines. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare economic considerations in the explanation of behavior, especially in production relations, which inevitably involve problems of cooperation as well as conflict. The concept of rationality of behaviour is thoroughly proved in this context, with particular attention paid to social interdependence and internal te

Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: issues, time, destiny, illusion, violence, identity
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393329291
ISBN-13: 9780393329292

“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.