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Examining the problem of hunger in the modern world and the role public opinion might play in combating it, Drèze and Sen here provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social, and political issues involved in the analysis of hunger. They explore famine prevention through a series of case studies in Africa and elsewhere, and discuss the problem of chronic undernourishment. Sen was awarded the second Agnelli Prize for the Ethical Dimension in Advanced Societies in March 1990 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the understanding of the ethical dimension in modern society.

Exploring the intricate relationship between rationality and freedom, this first volume by esteemed economist and philosopher Amartya Sen delves into these complex concepts within philosophy and social sciences. Sen offers clarity and insight into how these ideas influence justice, setting the stage for a deeper understanding in the subsequent volume. Through his analysis, he challenges conventional notions and encourages readers to rethink the significance of rationality in the pursuit of freedom.

Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home encompasses various places: Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents, Calcutta where he studied economics and engaged in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he arrived at nineteen. He vividly recreates the atmosphere of each location. Central to his development was the intellectually stimulating school in Santiniketan, founded by Rabindranath Tagore, who bestowed upon him the name Amartya. Engaging conversations in the renowned Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta further shaped his thinking. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he interacted with many leading intellectuals of the time. This narrative intertwines ideas—particularly those of Marx, Keynes, and Arrow—with personal experiences. In a memorable chapter, Sen reflects on 'the rivers of Bengal' that he traveled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The book explores Bengal's rich culture and the political tensions of Hindu-Muslim relations, alongside Sen's firsthand experience of the devastating 1943 Bengal famine. The imprisonment of some family members for opposing British rule highlights the complex relationship between Britain and India, another central theme. Remarkably, forty-five years after his arrival at Trinity, Sen became its Master.

Amartya Sen, a Nobel laureate and esteemed global intellectual, is renowned for his influential contributions to economics, particularly regarding poverty and famine, shaped by his experiences in West Bengal, India. His diverse life journey includes significant ties to Dhaka, Kolkata, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he interacted with prominent thinkers of his time. This rich background informs his perspectives and insights, making him a pivotal figure in understanding economic challenges worldwide.

Reversing his parent's immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new.

With his masterly prose, ease of erudition and ironic humour, Sen is one of the few great world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion Nadime Gordimer

In this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum all men are created equal serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, 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.

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

Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives

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 need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition. The understanding and use of this rich argumentative tradition are critically important, Sen argues, for the success of India's democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.

How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program, which serves as an introduction to nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books . In this volume, seven distinguished writers offer penetrating insights into the complexities of the subcontinent. Roderick MacFarquhar reflects on the legacy of Empire and Partition, Ian Buruma considers secularism and Indian democracy, Pankaj Mishra remembers life in Benares, and Christopher de Bellaigue writes on a violent Bombay. But the volatile intersections of history, politics, and culture on which they focus haunt Indian literature too, as shown in essays by Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen on Rabindranath Tagore, Hilary Mantel on Rohinton Mistry, and Anita Desai on Indian women's writing.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests and the inspiration he has provided for others. The editors have succeeded in creating a coherent and stimulating set of papers from well-known contributors. The volume deals with the enduring themes of Amartya Sen's work, ranging through theoretical issues of development economics to the philosophical foundation of welfare systems, and ethics in society. This work will be of special interest to academics specializing in development and welfare economics, and those with an interest in ethics and the philosophy of economics. Contributors: Anthony B. Atkinson, Pranab Bardhan, Jeffrey L. Coles, Rajat Deb, Jean Dreze, Louis Gevers, Peter J. Hammond, Ravi Kanbur, Eric S. Maskin, Robert Nozick, Siddiq Osmani, Martin Ravallion, Kevin Roberts, Mrinalini Saran, Robert Solow, and Serve Wilbaut. About The Author: Amartya Sen Nobel Laureate, is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and formerly, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

<i>Pathologies of Power</i> uses harrowing stories of life—and death—in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world’s poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer’s urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world’s poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.

A prestigious series of lectures that are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions.

Wolfson College Lectures 1981: • Reflections on social theory and political practice — by Ralf Dahrendorf • Social theory and politics in the history of social theory — by Tom Bottomore • Political theory and practice — by Charles Taylor • Accounts, actions, and values : objectivity of social science — by Amartya Sen • Social theory, social understanding, and political action — by John Dunn • The collapse of consensus : ideology in British politics — by David Marquand • Marxism and Communism — by Wlodzimierz Brus

Im Jahr 2020 erhält er für sein Lebenswerk den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Bereits 1998 wurde er mit dem Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ausgezeichnet. „Ökonomie für den Menschen“, erstmal im Jahr 2000 auf deutsch erschienen, ist das Hauptwerk Amartya Sens. Es zeigt: Ökonomische Vernunft, politischer Realismus und soziale Verantwortung müssen keine Widersprüche sein – denn nicht an unserem Wohlstand, sondern an unserer Freiheit zeigt sich wirklicher wirtschaftlicher Fortschritt.„Die Armen und Besitzlosen dieser Welt könnten unter den Ökonomen keinen klareren und kenntnisreicheren Fürsprecher haben als Amartya Sen.“ Kofi Annan„Ein großer Intellektueller und engagierter Humanist, der sich nie gescheut hat, Mögliches zu wagen und seine Überlegungen einem Praxistest zu unterziehen.“ Alexandra Kemmerer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Wenn politisches Engagement und Einsatz für Menschenrechte nicht zu blindem Aktionismus führen sollen, ist es nötig, gelegentlich innezuhalten und sich auf die Theorie der Menschenrechte zu besinnen. Menschenrechte, so Amartya Sen, sind erst einmal moralische Forderungen, die sich auf wichtige und sozial beeinflussbare Freiheiten beziehen. Nicht nur auf bürgerliche und politische Freiheiten, sondern auch auf ökonomische und soziale.Doch wie kann sich die Menschheit weltweit und dauerhaft auf dieselben Forderungen einigen – trotz all der kulturellen Unterschiede und extrem unterschiedlicher Rechtssysteme? Was kann eine Theorie der Menschenrechte leisten und was nützt sie in der Praxis?Sen entwirft in seinem Essay ein inklusives und zukunftsweisendes Verständnis der Menschenrechte, das einen Beitrag leisten soll, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

„Gewalt wird dadurch angefacht, dass man leichtgläubigen Leuten, die in die Hände von kundigen Fachleuten des Terrors fallen, ausschließliche Identitäten aufschwatzt.“ Amartya Sen Identität kann eine Quelle von Stolz und Freude, Kraft und Selbstvertrauen sein – und sie kann töten. Hemmungslos töten. Das geschieht, wenn Identität durch die Ausgrenzung von anderen Menschen zementiert wird und so Differenz in Hass umschlägt. Aber diese Identitäten sind Konstrukte und verabsolutieren einzelne Merkmale. Lange vor dem Aufstieg identitärer Bewegungen überall auf der Welt hat der indische Philosoph und Nobelpreisträger Amartya Sen in diesem Buch gezeigt, dass Identitäten niemals statisch sind und kein Mensch nur eine einzige Identität besitzt. Es hat bis heute nichts von seiner Aktualität verloren und legt überzeugend dar, warum die Einsicht in die universale Vielfalt der menschlichen Existenz der Schlüssel zu einer friedlicheren Welt ist.

Der indische Ökonom und Philosoph Amartya Sen hat die Welt verändert wie nur wenige andere Intellektuelle unserer Zeit. Vor allem wenn es um Fragen der Gerechtigkeit in einer globalisierten Welt geht, ist der Nobelpreis- und Friedenspreisträger eine Instanz. Dieser Band stellt in sechs prägnanten Lektionen unterschiedliche Dimensionen seines Denkens vor. Wer sie liest, der bekommt nicht nur einen Begriff von den gewaltigen Aufgaben, die noch vor uns liegen, er schöpft zugleich auch die Zuversicht, dass sie – wenn wir es nur wollen – bewältigt werden können.

Amartya Sens einflussreichster Aufsatz kritisiert die ökonomische Theorie, die Menschen auf Gier und Egoismus reduziert. Er argumentiert, dass Menschen oft vielschichtige, uneigennützige Motive verfolgen, die für das Funktionieren politischer und wirtschaftlicher Systeme unerlässlich sind. Sens zeigt die schädlichen Folgen dieser Vereinfachungen auf.

Der spätere Nobelpreisträger, indische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Philosoph Amartya Sen hielt in Stanford – im Rahmen der berühmten »Tanner Lectures« – einen Vortrag, der unser Denken über Entwicklungshilfe und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit nachhaltig erschüttern sollte: Mit Bezug auf die Gerechtigkeitstheorie des Philosophen John Rawls führte er seine These aus, dass es nicht um die Verteilung von Gütern oder Geld (z. B. in der Entwicklungshilfe), sondern um die Chancen gehen solle, die jeder einzelne zur Verwirklichung seiner Lebensträume vorfindet. Dieser einflussreiche klassische Aufsatz wird hier erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung mit Kommentar und einem einführenden Nachwort veröffentlicht.

Questo breve libro è una "miniera" per gli economisti, i filosofi e gli studiosi di scienze politiche interessati ai rapporti tra l'economia contemporanea e la filosofia morale. Scrivendo in uno stile chiaro e stimolante, il professor Amartya Sen presenta qualcosa di più di una limpida sintesi della letteratura importante in campo etico ed economico. Amartya K. Sen è Premio Nobel 1998 per l'economia.