Amartya Sen
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Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, ...
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Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 25 Mai 2011
- 9780307874290
By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics,yes'>#160;yes'>#160;an essential andyes'>#160;yes'>#160;paradigmaltering framework for understanding economic developmentfor both rich and poorin the twentyfirst century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining ec...
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
Amartya Sen
- Oup oxford
- 20 Janvier 1983
- 9780191037436
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
Amartya Sen
- Oup oxford
- 20 Janvier 1983
- 9780191521409
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. ...
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India is a 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 outline the nee...
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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 le...
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Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Amartya Sen
- Penguin books ltd digital
- 19 Janvier 2017
- 9780241244609
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition'Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way that is both fair and theoretically sound? ...
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From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development. When Ind...
