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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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Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the basic ideas underlying individual freedom seen as a social commitment and illustrate the implications of this view with actual real-life problems, and point out that some of the most distressing problems of social ethics are deeply economic in nature.
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Maximisation and the Act of Choice
TL;DR: The act of choosing can influence maximizing behavior for at least two distinct reasons: 1) process significance and 2) decisional inescapability as discussed by the authors, and critical appraisal of the implications of these concerns for rational decisions about actions and strategies.