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Amartya Sen
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Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
— p. xiii
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
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Born 1933 · age 93India
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An economist who made famine and inequality problems you could measure — and for showing how freedom and welfare twist together in ways markets alone miss, he took the Nobel.
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Born in Bengal in 1933, Amartya Sen studied economics through the lens of hunger and choice in a country that knew both intimately. His doctoral work led him to England and the U.S. from 1972 onward, where he rebuilt welfare economics around capabilities — what people can actually do and be — rather than income alone. The Nobel came in 1998 for contributions to social choice and welfare theory; India gave him the Bharat Ratna a year later. He taught at Cambridge as master of Trinity College before moving to Harvard, where he holds a university professorship in economics and philosophy. In 2020…
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Amartya Sen
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I agree with Mr Wolf that freedom is centrally important.
— "Unrestrained smoking is a libertarian half-way house", Financial Times (February 11, 2007)
Amartya Sen
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People's priorities and actions are influenced by many different affiliations and associations, not just by their religion.
— "Solution to cultural confusion is freedom and reason", Financial Times (November 29, 2005)
Amartya Sen
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I am not persuaded that Hayek got the substantive connections entirely right.
— "An insight into the purpose of prosperity", Financial Times (September 20, 2004)
Amartya Sen
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Our debt to Hayek is very substantial.
— "An insight into the purpose of prosperity", Financial Times (September 20, 2004)
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