Amartya Sen

In a collection of sixteen interlinked essays, the Nobel Prize-winning economist shares his observations on India's intellectual and political heritage, revealing how the country's argumentative tradition is vital for the continuing success of its democracy and secular politics. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

The Argumentative Indian

The 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics states that freedom is the most efficient means of sustaining economic life and securing welfare throughout the world, explaining how his theories can be applied today. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Development As Freedom

Jean Drèze

Two of the country's leading economists discuss how the underdevelopment of social services, archaic attitudes towards women and problems with physical services are a stark contrast to the fast-moving economic successes of India over the past 65 years. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

India and Its Contradictions

An Uncertain Glory

Michael Polanyi

"The Tacit Dimension" argues that tacit knowledge -tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments- is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. This volume challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.

The Tacit Dimension

Arguing that the violence of today's world is as much as factor of misunderstanding as it is of cultural differences, a Nobel Laureate explains that modern conflicts have origins in illusions about identity, morality, and other factors, in an account that presents the author's vision of how the world can move toward peace. Reprint.

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)

Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Science -- Cover.

Development as Freedom

A Memoir

Home in the World

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.

An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

Poverty and Famines

الهوية والعنف 

In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare-economic considerations in the explanation of behaviour.

On Ethics and Economics

The noted economist and philosopher Amartya Sen argues that the dictum “all people are created equal” serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, and physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background. He argues for concentrating on higher and more basic values: individual capabilities and freedom to achieve objectives. By concentrating on the equity and efficiency of social arrangements in promoting freedoms and capabilities of individuals, Sen adds an important new angle to arguments about such vital issues as gender inequalities, welfare policies, affirmative action, and public provision of health care and education.

Inequality Reexamined

Collective Choice and Social Welfare

Amartya Sens meistzitierter und einflussreichster Aufsatz: Die ökonomische Theorie reduziert den Menschen auf Gier und Egoismus. Dabei verfolgen Menschen in konkreten Situationen zum Glück häufig gar keine rein eigennützige, sondern eine vielschichtige Strategie. In Wahrheit gibt es also auf uneigennützigen Verpflichtungen beruhende Motive und Handlungen, ohne die jedes politische und wirtschaftliche System zusammenbrechen müsste. Sen zeigt, dass die Vereinfachungen der ökonomischen Theorie daher nicht nur kurzsichtig oder falsch sind, sondern sogar schädlich.

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Rationale Dummköpfe. Eine Kritik der Verhaltensgrundlagen der Ökonomischen Theorie

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, he argues, in the wrong direction in general. At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced between alternative assessments of what is reasonable. Sen also shows how concern about the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism, and further, address questions of global injustice. The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.

The Idea of Justice

In this sparkling, witty and impassioned essay – delivered as the keynote lecture at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014 – Amartya Sen meets the Goddess of Medium Things who promises him seven wishes, one for each day of the week. As he spars with the goddess who is often bemused by his demands, Sen writes of the seven changes he thinks India needs most, from improving the teaching of humanities to abolishing Article 377. Humorous in tone, yet deeply serious in intent, A Wish a Day for a Week is a marvellous essay and an important blueprint for India’s development from one of our great thinkers.

A Wish a Day for a Week

Ali Süha

Etik ve ekonomi

Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment, gender-based inequality, and hunger and famines.

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