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Jan 14, 2025 | 
slguardian.org | Amartya Sen
To say Manmohan Singh was a great man would be to state the obvious. He was a brilliant political leader, a visionary thinker, an outstanding economist, a superb academic, a fabulous leader of administration, a splendid husband, father and grandfather, and an immeasurably sympathetic human being. For me personally he was also the warmest of friends for nearly 70 years.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
indianexpress.com | Amartya Sen
We were extraordinarily happy at the Delhi School of Economics when we successfully persuaded Manmohan to join us. He was a terrific teacher and a darling of the students, but he also had time to talk with his colleagues.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Amartya Sen
Poverty analysis should go beyond income level—Amartya Sen at Nobel Prize lectureOn 8 December 1998, Amartya Sen delivered his Nobel Prize lecture at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he discussed the challenges and foundational …
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
theprint.in | Amartya Sen
There is, thus, an important need to go beyond income information in poverty analysis, in particular to see poverty as capability deprivation. However (as was discussed earlier), the choice of the informational base for poverty analysis cannot really be dissociated from pragmatic considerations, particularly informational availability.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Amartya Sen |Eric Maskin |Kenneth J. Arrow
Amartya Sen is an Indian philosopher and economist. He has taught at Harvard since 1987, and is widely known for his contribution to our understanding of famines. In 1998, he won the Nobel economics prize “for his contributions to welfare economics.” He is one of our most frequently recommended authors on Five Books.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
kathmandupost.com | Amartya Sen |Rishika Dhakal
Ananda Mohan Bhattarai served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal from August 2016 to June 2024. Before his tenure at the Supreme Court, he held positions as a judge in various district and high courts across Nepal. Bhattarai is also the author of four books focusing on law and environmental issues. In a conversation with the Post’s Rishika Dhakal, Bhattarai discusses the interplay between law and literature, his reading habits, and book recommendations for aspiring lawyers.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Robert Nozick |Eric Ries |Amartya Sen |Rupert Cocke
"Growth chart" by griseldangelo1 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Liberals (in the old-fashioned and European sense of the word) have a significant problem. “We should mostly leave people alone and then good things will happen” is a time-tested statement. Unfortunately, slogans based on this message will rarely win elections; and some people will undermine the idea by basing their whole worldview on it, without tempering it with any other insights.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
dhakatribune.com | Amartya Sen
Dear Rehman,I am hugely moved by your letter about our shared Bangladesh. It also made me think about our student days, when we had such dreams about a future Bengal and hoped that our anticipations and highest expectations would someday come true. You were living mostly in Kolkata in those days, and I was, in contrast, mostly in Dhaka, on the other side of the east-west divide.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
shethepeople.tv | Elizabeth Strout |Amartya Sen |Louise Glück |Mosab Abu Toha
The women expressed the odyssey that plays out behind each of their wor. In all discussions, the writers were asked to share some of the best reads that they indulged in this year to help their creativity flow. Here are some of their best picks and the reads that they look forward to in 2024.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
internazionale.it | Amartya Sen
Questo articolo è stato pubblicato il 21 dicembre 2001 nel numero 417 di Internazionale.
È passato più di un secolo da quando, nel 1870, la regina vittoria scrisse a sir Theodore Martin lamentando “questa assurda, perfida follia dei ‘Diritti della Donna’”. La formidabile imperatrice non aveva certo bisogno della protezione offerta dal riconoscimento dei diritti delle donne.
