This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen's, capability approach, and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The capability approach has attracted attention across disciplinary boundaries in recent years contributing to debates in economics, politi[...]

This unique volume is the first to examine Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's ideas through the lens of gender. His humanitarian approach to economics has been crucial to the development of several aspects of feminist economics and gender analysis. This book outlines the range and usefulness of his work f[...]

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is [...]

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. This volume - the fir[...]

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 econo[...]

From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dreze (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 [...]

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Denna bok är en skattkista för alla nationalekonomer, filosofer och statsvetare som är intresserade av relationerna mellan modern nationalekonomi och moralfilosofi. Nationalekonomin skulle i hög grad kunna berikas genom att man ägnar mer uppmärksamhet åt etike[...]

?Våld skapas?, skriver Amartya Sen, ?när skickliga agitatorer tvingar på godtrogna människor enkelspåriga och aggresiva identiteter?. I denna bok visar Sen att föreställningen om unika och givna identiteter är lika mycket en illusion som en stor fara. En sådan syn missförstår praktiskt ta[...]

Moniääninen Intia. Kirjoituksia historiasta, kulttuurista ja identiteetistä on kokoelma Amartya Senin esseitä Intiasta. Sen on Nobel-palkittu intialainen taloustieteilijä, jonka akateemisia saavutuksia arvostetaan suuresti ympäri maailmaa. Tämä esseekokoelma on länsimaisittain ainutlaatuine[...]

Profound and humane, Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny" examines some of the most explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war. In this penetrating book, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues that we are bec[...]

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 econo[...]