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Amartya Sen
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 696
Citations - 145473
Amartya Sen is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Politics. The author has an hindex of 149, co-authored 689 publications receiving 141907 citations. Previous affiliations of Amartya Sen include Trinity College, Dublin & University of Chicago.
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Development as Freedom
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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Commodities and Capabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between well-being and Sex Bias in India and some international comparative comparisons of the two domains, and present a survey of the relationship.
Report by the commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress
TL;DR: As a measure of market capacity and not economic well-being, the authors pointed out that the two can lead to misleading indications about how well-off people are and entail the wrong policy decisions.
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The Idea of Justice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an approach to justice that is based on the Demands of Justice, Reason and Objectivity, Human Rights and Global Imperatives, and the Materials of Justice.