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  | | Inequality Reexamined(Reprint) by Amartya Kumar Sen, Professor Amartya Sen, Russell Sage Foundation, Amartyá Sen Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-45256-5, ISBN: 0-674-45256-9 "Professor Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous seminal work, On Economic Inequality, first published in 1973, and provides new analyses and insights in this crucial area. This original and incisive book brings together and develops some of the most important themes of Sen's work over the last decade. He notes that the difference between virtually all contemporary ethical approaches to social arrangements lies not in whether t ..." |
 | | The Idea of Justice(Reprint) by Professor Amartya Sen, Amartya K. Sen, Joseph H., Charles S., Ian Jorge, Amartyá Sen Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2011 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06047-0, ISBN: 0-674-06047-4 " Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in howâand how wellâpeople live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind. The transc ..." |
 | | Development as Freedom(Reprint) by Amartya Kumar Sen, Professor Amartya Sen, Amartyá Sen Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2000 by Anchor Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72027-4, ISBN: 0-385-72027-0 "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 hi ..." |
 | | The Argumentative Indian Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Kumar Sen, Master Amartya Sen, Amartya Gen Paperback, 409 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42602-6, ISBN: 0-312-42602-X "From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, "The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity" brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. Out of these conflicting views spring a rich tradition of skeptical argument an ..." |
 | | Poverty and Famines(Reprint) An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya K. Sen, Professor Amartya Sen, Jean Dreze Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 1990 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828463-5, ISBN: 0-19-828463-2 "Ghosh, K. C. , 39,49, 55, 57, 76–7, 78, 164, 197,205, 211, 227 Ginneken, W. Van , 37, 227, 228 Glantz, M. H. , 121, 123, 128–9, 228 Glass, D. , viii Glass, R. , viii Goedhart, T. , 30, 228 Gordon Drabek, A. , 7, 158, 245 Gorman, W. M. , viii, 24, 228 Graaff, J. de V., 187, 191, 228 Grant, J. P. , 24, 228 Gray, M. , 228 Greenhough, P. R. , 56, 228 Gregory, M. , 245 Griffin, K. , viii, 24, 47, 151, 228 Guitton, H. , 235 Gulati, I. S. ..." |
 | | Mismeasuring Our Lives(10th Edition) Why GDP Doesn't Add Up by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Amartya Sen, Eamon Kircher-Allen, Anya Schiffrin Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2010 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-519-6, ISBN: 1-59558-519-2 "In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)--the most widely used measure of economic activity--is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. Th ..." |
 | | Collective Choice and Social Welfare An Expanded Edition by Amartya Sen Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2018 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-91921-1, ISBN: 0-674-91921-1 "Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been recognized for its groundbreaking role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of research in social choice, including aggregative assessment. It has also had a large influence on international organizations, including the United Nations, notably in its work on human development. The book showed that the “impossibility theorems” in socia ..." |
 | | The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series) by Eric S. Maskin, Amartya Sen Fba, Kenneth J. Arrow, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Partha Dasgupta, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Prasanta Pattanaik Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2014 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15328-7, ISBN: 0-231-15328-7 "Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence. In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen considers its ongoing utility, exploring the ..." |
 | | On Economic Inequality (Radcliffe Lectures) by Amartya Kumar Sen, James E. " Foster, Amartyá Sen, James Eric Foster, Master Amartya Sen Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1997 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828193-1, ISBN: 0-19-828193-5 "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 fr ..." |
 | | The Idea of Justice(1st Edition) by Fba Amartya Sen, Amartya K. Sen Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2009 by Allen Lane ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-147-8, ISBN: 1-84614-147-8 |
 | | An Uncertain Glory by Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen, Jean Drã Ze Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Allen Lane ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-761-6, ISBN: 1-84614-761-1 "When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three decades and became the second fastest amon ..." |
 | | An Uncertain Glory India and Its Contradictions by Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-197582-5, ISBN: 0-14-197582-2 "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 India regained independence from colonial rule in 1947, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom ..." |
 | | Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-307-87429-0, ISBN: 0-307-87429-X "See also the symposia on the capability approach in Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia 53 (1994), and in Notizie di Politeia ( 1996; special volume), including contributions by Alessandro Balestrino, Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Elena Granaglia, Renata Targetti Lenti, Ian Carter, L. Casini and I. Bernetti, S. Razavi, and others. See also the related symposium on entitlement analysis in journal of ..." |
 | | Issues of Our Time Identity and Violence : The Illusion of Destiny 0 by Amartya Sen 240 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24319-2, ISBN: 0-393-24319-2 "Albert Tevoedjre, Winning the l/Var Against Humiliation (New York: UNDP, 2002), Report of the Independent Commission ... under increasingly hardened imperial relations. . james Mill, The History of British India (London, 1817', republished, ... the Hindus was for a time regarded,” and he was particularly amused that jones had made these attributions “with an air of belief” (The History of British India, pp." |
 | | An Uncertain Glory India and its Contradictions by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen Fba, Jean Drã¨Ze, Amartyá Sen Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2020 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-0-14-199262-4, ISBN: 0-14-199262-X "This book presents a powerful analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice." |
 | | India(2nd Edition) Development and Participation by Amartya Sen, Jean Drèze, Jean Drã Ze Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925749-2, ISBN: 0-19-925749-3 "This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors place human agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing e ..." |
 | | Political Economy of Hunger Volume 1 Entitlement and Wellbeing by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-886017-4, ISBN: 0-19-886017-X "This volume is the first of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world. It deals with the background nutritional, economic, social, and political aspects of the problem of world hunger.Topics covered include the characteristics and causal antecedents of famines and endemic deprivation, the interconnections between economic and political fac ..." |
 | | Poverty and Famines An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen 272 Pages, Published 1983 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-103743-6, ISBN: 0-19-103743-5 "... 205, 208, 210, 211, 213, 224 Dasgupta, A. K. , viii, 2, 49, 224 Dasgupta, B. , 224 Dasgupta, P. , 224 Deaton, A. , 29, 30, ... A. , 228 Ghosh, Ambika , 67, 70–1, 73, 77, 96, 208, 209–10, 235 Ghosh; Ajit, 47, 161, 227 Ghosh, Arun , 227 Ghosh, ..." |
 | | The Idea of Justice(1st Edition) by Professor Amartya Sen, Amartyá Sen, Amartya Kumar Sen Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2009 by Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03613-0, ISBN: 0-674-03613-1 " Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in howâand how wellâpeople live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind. The transc ..." |
 | | The Tacit Dimension(Updated) by Michael Polanyi, Amartya Sen, Amartya Kumar Sen Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-67298-4, ISBN: 0-226-67298-0 " “I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,” writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The Tacit Dimension argues that tacit knowledge—tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments—is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. Back in print for a new generation of students and scholars, this volume challenges ..." |
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