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Argumentative Indian
Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2006
147 kr
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From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India.India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, …
Identity and Violence
The Illusion of Destiny
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2007
155 kr
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Profound and humane, Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny examines some of the most explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war.In this penetrating book, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues that we are …
Idea of Justice
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2010
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
166 kr
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From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice.Is justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?At the heart of Sen's …
The Country of First Boys
And Other Essays
Av Amartya Sen
Inbunden, 2015
166 kr
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Time and again Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and polymath, has stimulated our thoughts and world-view through his ideas. In his new collection of cultural essays Sen examines social justice and welfare, by addressing some of the fundamental issues of our time like deprivation, disparity, hunger, …
Utveckling som frihet
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2002
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
228 kr
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Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Expanded Edition
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2017
166 kr
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Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition'Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way that is both fair and theoretically sound? Is …
Uncertain Glory
India and its Contradictions
Häftad, 2020
155 kr
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UPDATED WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION'Magnificent ... a major work by two of the world's most perceptive and intelligent India-watchers writing today' William Dalrymple, New Statesman From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory is a …
Indian Development
Selected Regional Perspectives
Inbunden, 1997
3918 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.India is a country of great diversity. The commonly used indicators of `quality of …
Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-being
Häftad, 2020
536 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This volume is the first of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating …
Development as Freedom
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 2001
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
181 kr
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In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by …
Home in the World
A Memoir
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 2021
136 kr
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The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his …
Identity and Violence
The Illusion of Destiny
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 2015
105 kr
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The world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before, yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues in this sweeping philosophical work that its brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred.Sen argues in his new book that conflict and violence are sustained today, no …
Argumentative Indian
Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 2006
108 kr
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India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the …
Idea of Justice
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 2010
122 kr
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Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, …
Development as Freedom
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 2001
126 kr
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In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by …
Development as Freedom
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 2001
126 kr
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In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms and remain imprisoned in one way or another by …
Poverty and Famines
An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 1983
538 kr
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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the ''entitlement approach''--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the …
Poverty and Famines
An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
Av Amartya Sen
E-bok, 1983
538 kr
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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the ''entitlement approach''--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the …
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
Av Amartya Sen, Fabienne Peter m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
645 kr
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In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutrition, housing, immunization, and improved medical care. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, …
Social Security in Developing Countries
Av AHMAD ET AL, Ehtisham Ahmad m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2077 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.The term `social security' has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries …
On Economic Inequality
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 1973
1060 kr
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First published in 1973, this book presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in terms of their philosophical assumptions, economic content, and statistical requirements. In a new …
Inequality Reexamined
Av Amartya Sen
Inbunden, 1992
3130 kr
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Professor Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous seminal work, On Economic Inequality, first published in 1973, and provides new analyses and insights in this crucial area.This original and incisive book brings together and develops some of the most important themes of Sen's work over the …
Hunger and Public Action
Häftad, 1991
1041 kr
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This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO). It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open …
Poverty and Famines
An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 1983
720 kr
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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the …
The Political Economy of Hunger: Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-being
Inbunden, 1991
3697 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.WIDER Studies in Development Economics The World Institute for Development …
Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 2: Famine Prevention
Inbunden, 1991
3530 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.WIDERThe World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, …
The Political Economy of Hunger: Political Economy of Hunger
Volume 3: Endemic Hunger
Inbunden, 1991
4231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.WIDERThe World Institute for Development Economics Research, established in 1984, …
The Quality of Life
Av Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen
Häftad, 1993
1231 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book addresses issues of defining and measuring the quality of life. Recent …
The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays
Av Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
932 kr
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An abridged selection of papers from the hardbackHailed in its initial publication as a work with urgent implications for countless lives, Drèze and Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and satiety, hunger kills …
Inequality Reexamined
Av Amartya Sen
Häftad, 1995
846 kr
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This book brings together and develops some of the most important economic, social, and ethical ideas Sen has explored over the last two decades. It examines the claims of equality in social arrangements, stressing that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than either their …
