Amartya Sen

Citations

• “John Kenneth Galbraith doesn’t get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It’s like reading Hamlet and deciding it’s full of quotations.”

• “Where is the railway station?” he asks me. “There,” I say, pointing at the post office, “and would you please post this letter for me on the way?” “Yes,” he says, determined to open the envelope and check whether it contains something valuable.

• “Smith had no illusion that this would be easy to do, nor did he suffer from the delusion that such an exercise would, in any sense, be perfect. But he did have the conviction that the exercise could still be very useful, and the best should not be made into an enemy of the good.”

• “What moves us, reasonably enough, is not the realization that the world falls short of being completely just – which few of us expect – but that there are clearly remediable injustices around us which we want to eliminate.”

• “Given what can be achieved through intelligent and humane intervention, it is amazing how inactive and smug most societies are about the prevalence of the unshared burden of disability.”

Les livres de Amartya Sen dans l'ordre

Les livres de Amartya Sen dans l'ordre de parution, de Choice of Techniques (1960) à Home in the World (2021).

1. 1Choice of TechniquesChoice of Techniques1960
2. 2Growth EconomicsGrowth Economics1970
3. 3On Economic InequalityOn Economic Inequality1973
4. 4Poverty and FaminesPoverty and Famines1981
5. 5Choice, Welfare, and MeasurementChoice, Welfare, and Measurement1982
6. 6Resources, Values, and DevelopmentResources, Values, and Development1984
7. 7Commodities and CapabilitiesCommodities and Capabilities1985
8. 8On Ethics and EconomicsOn Ethics and Economics1987
9. 9Inequality ReexaminedInequality Reexamined1992
10. 10Nueva economía del bienestarNueva economía del bienestar1995
11. 11Human Rights and Asian ValuesHuman Rights and Asian Values1997
12. 12L' économie est une science moraleL' économie est une science morale1999
13. 13Reason Before IdentityReason Before Identity1999
14. 14Un nouveau modèle économiqueUn nouveau modèle économique1999
15. 15Repenser l'inégalitéRepenser l'inégalité2000
16. 16Rationality and FreedomRationality and Freedom2003
17. 17Identity and ViolenceIdentity and Violence2005
18. 18The Argumentative IndianThe Argumentative Indian2005
19. 19The Idea of JusticeThe Idea of Justice2009
20. 20Collective Choice and Social WelfareCollective Choice and Social Welfare2017
21. 21Home in the WorldHome in the World2021
22. 22Sobre Etica y EconomiaSobre Etica y Economia