Amartya Sen
Philosopher
1933-11-03
Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher known for major contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998.
Books by Amartya Sen
-
Development as Freedom
View on Amazon -
-
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Quotes by Amartya Sen
-
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
Read quote -
While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
Read quote -
An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.
Read quote -
While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.
Read quote -
An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.
Read quote -
A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.
Read quote -
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.
Read quote -
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
Read quote -
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Read quote