Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on welfare economics and the capabilities approach. Development as Freedom argued that development means expanding human freedoms, not just GDP. The Idea of Justice offered a comparative approach to justice rooted in actual human experience.
Works
- Development as FreedomTheory that development means expanding people's capabilities and real freedoms
- The Idea of JusticeFramework for comparing and improving justice across different societies and circumstances
- Collective Choice and Social WelfareTechnical analysis of rational choice theory and methods for measuring social welfare
- On Economic InequalityExamination of inequality's causes, distribution, and relation to economic justice
- Identity and ViolenceAnalysis of how singular identities can fuel violence and exclusion in plural societies
- Inequality ReexaminedReconsideration of the concepts and measures of poverty and economic disparity
- Poverty and FaminesStudy of famines as political failures rather than natural disasters or scarcity
- The Argumentative IndianEssays on Indian philosophy, democracy, and the tradition of dissent in Asian thought