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While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its ...

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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and pract...

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To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understandi...

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The Idea of Justice

To understand the world is never a matter of simply recording our immediate perceptions. Understandi...

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If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the...

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But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acu...

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An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search fo...

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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History

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Amartya Sen

Economist

Born: 1933-11-03

Died: N/A

Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics.More