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December 28, 2020, Video: "Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen talks to NDTV about the controversy around his Shantiniketan house, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's letter of support, the intellectuals' show of solidarity and how it is all being viewed through the prism of politics ahead of the Bengal elections. "I have not received any legal or other notice from Visva Bharati," he said as he discussed the ongoing farmers' protest and the "…
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August 19, 2020, Paper: "Janos Kornai chose to become an economist after reading Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. Kornai’s relation with Marx is not merely political, but also professional. Kornai “broke with Marxism” in 1956, but his relationship with Marx’s thoughts were not severed then. Kornai’s post-1956 works can be examined in the light of Marx’s ideas, dealing particularly with equity, freedom and the relation between theory and practice. Some…
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August 2020, Video, "This conversation between Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Angus Deaton, moderated by Annual Review of Economics Editorial Committee Member Tim Besley, focuses on bringing ethical issues into economics, and the implications that this has for the practice and teaching of economics." Watch and Read Via the Annual Review of…
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March 2, 2020, Paper: "Journal Description - Social Choice and Welfare explores all aspects, both normative and positive, of welfare economics, collective choice, and strategic interaction. Topics include but are not limited to: preference aggregation, welfare criteria, fairness, justice and equity, rights, inequality and poverty measurement, voting and elections, political games, coalition formation, public goods, mechanism design, networks,…
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2019, Book Chapter, "In the making of acceptable decisions for a social group (such as a nation, a community, a committee, or any other collectivity) the diverse views and interests of the members of the group must receive attention and importance."
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The Political Economy of Hunger: On Reasoning and Participation. Amartya Sen, April 2019, Paper, "Sen's essay concerns the existence of extensive hunger amidst unprecedented global prosperity in the contemporary world, but he argues that the problem would be decisively solvable if our response were no longer shaped by Malthusian pessimism. Effective famine prevention does not turn on food supply per head and the automatic mechanism of the market…
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The Future of Economic and Social Rights - Foreword. Amartya Sen, 2019, Book Chapter, "The future of economic and social rights is unlikely to resemble its past. Neglected within the human rights movement, avoided by courts, and subsumed within a single-minded conception of development as economic growth, economic and social rights enjoyed an uncertain status in international human rights law and in the public laws of most countries. However,…
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Our Obligation to Future Generations, Amartya Sen, 2018, Book Chapter, "Our reasoned sense of our responsibilities to others can arise from at least three possible sources: cooperation, having caused harm, and effective power to improve suffering...." Link
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Ethics and the Foundation of Global Justice. Amartya Sen, September 8, 2017, Paper, "Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” That was in April 1963, more than a half-century ago. He had been jailed for his agitation to end injustice against non-white people in his own country, and he would be killed soon after by an assassin who hated him and his…
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Harvard's Amartya Sen Says European Unity Is Important. Amartya Sen, April 20, 2017, Video, "Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, discusses his warning to Marine Le Pen about using his ideas to campaign against the EU. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Gura on "What'd You Miss?""…