Poverty and Famines

Name: Poverty and Famines
Author: Amartya Sen

by Amartya Sen

Study of famines as political failures rather than natural disasters or scarcity

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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.

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