Amartya Sen

The Argumentative Indian is a book written by Nobel Prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen. It is a collection of essays that discuss India's history and identity, focusing on the traditions of public debate and intellectual pluralism. Martha Nussbaum says the book "demonstrates the importance of public debate in …

Comment concilier l'efficacité économique avec le respect de la justice et de la liberté ? En couronnant Amartya Sen en 1998, les jurés du prix Nobel d'Économie ont reconnu que la science économique ne se réduisait pas à la tradition dominante, celle de l'utilitarisme. Les comportements individuels et les choix …

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prizewinning 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 …