Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya by Kaushik Basu,Ravi Kanbur

By Kaushik Basu,Ravi Kanbur

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the educational disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences extra largely. He has engaged in coverage discussion and public debate, advancing the reason for a human improvement centred coverage time table, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the negative, and for plurality in cultural viewpoint. it isn't outstanding that he has received the top awards, starting from the Nobel Prize in Economics to the Bharat Ratna, India's maximum civilian honor. This public acceptance has long past hand in hand with the love and admiration that Amartya's pals and scholars carry for him.

This quantity of essays, written in honor of his seventy fifth birthday via his scholars and friends, covers the diversity of contributions that Sen has made to wisdom. they're written via the various world's top economists, philosophers and social scientists, and handle subject matters corresponding to ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human improvement, society and politics. the second one quantity covers the themes of Human improvement and services; Gender and loved ones; progress, Poverty and coverage; and Society, Politics and historical past. it's a becoming tribute to Sen's personal contributions to the discourse on Society, associations and Development.

Contributors contain: Bina Agarwal, Isher Ahluwalia, Montek S Ahluwalia, Ingela Alger, Muhammad Asali, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Pranab Bardhan, Lourdes Benería, Sugata Bose, Lincoln C. Chen, Martha adjust Chen, Kanchan Chopra, Simon Dietz, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Jonathan Glover, Cameron Hepburn, Jane Humphries, Rizwanul Islam, Ayesha Jalal, Mary Kaldor, Sunil Khilnani, Stephan Klasen, Jocelyn Kynch, Enrica Chiappero Martinetti, Kirsty McNay, Martha C. Nussbaum, Elinor Ostrom, Gustav Ranis, Sanjay G. Reddy, Emma Samman, Rehman Sobhan, Robert M. Solow, Nicholas Stern, Frances Stewart, Ashutosh Varshney, Sujata Visaria, and Jörgen W. Weibull.

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