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Product Description: Case studies from Rwanda and Angola show how the cost of inaction can be greater than the cost of action. Failure to reduce extreme poverty, for example, often results in malnutrition, preventable morbidity, premature death, and incomplete basic education...read more
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9780674065581 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 21, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Case studies from Rwanda and Angola show how the cost of inaction can be greater than the cost of action.

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Product Description: Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how—and how well—people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind...read more
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9780674036130 | 1 edition (Belknap Pr, September 30, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities?

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9780674060470 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, May 31, 2011), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities?

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Product Description: In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief...read more
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9780231140003 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.

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9780231140010 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.

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9788420621548 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $21.95

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9788420667355 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $37.95

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9788420629513 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $47.95

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Product Description: El autor es uno de los pensadores publicos mas influyentes de nuestro tiempo. Se destruyen no pocos estereotipos y situa la idea de la India y la indianidad en su contexto apropiado y merecido. Escribir este libro era necesario.
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9788474328325 | Gedisa Editorial S A, April 30, 2007, cover price $63.95 | About this edition: El autor es uno de los pensadores publicos mas influyentes de nuestro tiempo.

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Product Description: This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity. With contributions from distinguished philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and public-health specialists, it centres on five major themes: what is health equity?; health equity and social justice; responsibilities for health; ethical issues in health evaluation; and anthropological perspectives...read more
By Sudhir Anand (editor), Fabienne Peter (editor) and Amartya Sen (editor)
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9780199276363 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 17, 2005, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity.

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9780199276370 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 9, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This book builds an interdisciplinary understanding of health equity.

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Covers the history of United Nations' programs that have benefited women in developing nations, describing the impact on rights, equality, and social justice.
By Devaki Jain and Amartya Sen (foreword by)
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9780253346971 | Indiana Univ Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Covers the history of United Nations' programs that have benefited women in developing nations, describing the impact on rights, equality, and social justice.

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Product Description: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674009479 | Belknap Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences.

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9780674013513 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, March 30, 2004), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences.

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9788474916041 | Italian edition edition (Complutense S A Editorial, March 3, 2003), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Publication based on the Special Theme of the Commonwealth Finance Minister's Meeting 'Delivering the Millennium Development Goals' held in London, September 2002. Includes the report of Civil Society Consultations as an appendix...read more
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9780850927375 | Commonwealth Secretarial, March 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Publication based on the Special Theme of the Commonwealth Finance Minister's Meeting 'Delivering the Millennium Development Goals' held in London, September 2002.

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Product Description: This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780199257485 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 31, 2002), cover price $139.50 | About this edition: This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India.

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9780199257492 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 28, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India.

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By Amartya Sen (editor)
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9781400824649 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 15, 2001, cover price $20.95

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Product Description: The Sen and Dreze omnibus comprises three outstanding works by two of the world's finest economists. The volume is a trilogy on the causes of hunger, the role public action can play in its alleviation, and the Indian experience in this context...read more
By Jean Dreze (editor) and Amartya Sen
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9780195648317 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 1999, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: The Sen and Dreze omnibus comprises three outstanding works by two of the world's finest economists.

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Product Description: This is a collection of essays by six prominent social scientists on the ideal of economic and social equality and the ways, if any, in which public action can help to achieve it. * Amartya Sen offers an overview of how equality can be furthered by public action...read more
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9780198292050 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 27, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This is a collection of essays by six prominent social scientists on the ideal of economic and social equality and the ways, if any, in which public action can help to achieve it.

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9780198295181 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 29, 1999, cover price $43.50 | About this edition: This is a collection of essays by six prominent social scientists on the ideal of economic and social equality and the ways, if any, in which public action can help to achieve it.

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Product Description: In November of 1998 Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics, delivered the 1998 Romanes Lecture before the University of Oxford. The subject was social identity and its role and implications.
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9780199513895 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 26, 1999, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In November of 1998 Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics, delivered the 1998 Romanes Lecture before the University of Oxford.

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Product Description: India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited. Recent diagnoses of this failure of policy have concentrated on the counterproductive role of government regulation, and on the need for economic incentives to accelerate the growth of the economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198290124 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 23, 1996, cover price $143.00 | About this edition: India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited.

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9780198295280 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 8, 1999, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: India's success in reducing endemic deprivation since Independence has been quite limited.

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Product Description: In this classic text, first published in 1973, Amartya Sen relates the theory of welfare economics to the study of economic inequality. He presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality...read more
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9780198281931 | Subsequent edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 27, 1997), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In this classic text, first published in 1973, Amartya Sen relates the theory of welfare economics to the study of economic inequality.

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By Michael Cromartie (editor), Nicholas Eberstadt (editor), Midge Mecter (editor), Gilbert Meilaender (editor), Amartya Sen (editor), Julian Simon (editor), George Weigel (editor) and Karl Zinsmeister (editor)
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9780802808790 | Eerdmans Pub Co, July 1, 1995, cover price $14.00

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Product Description: The term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation. This book attempts to define social security in the Third World and to examine what sort of programs are most suitable for developing countries...read more
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9780198233008 | Clarendon Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The term "social security" has a very different meaning in underdeveloped countries -- whose populations live in great insecurity -- and is best understood as poverty alleviation.

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Product Description: Examining the problem of hunger in the modern world and the role public opinion might play in combating it, Dr�ze and Sen here provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social, and political issues involved in the analysis of hunger...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198286349 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 6, 1990, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Examining the problem of hunger in the modern world and the role public opinion might play in combatting it, Drèze and Sen here provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social, and political issues involved in the analysis of hunger.

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9780198283652 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 14, 1991), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Examining the problem of hunger in the modern world and the role public opinion might play in combating it, Dr�ze and Sen here provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social, and political issues involved in the analysis of hunger.

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Product Description: In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare-economic considerations in the explanation of behaviour...read more
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9780631164012 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, February 1, 1989), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies.

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9780521368407 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1989, cover price $31.00

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9780521321013 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 25, 1987), cover price $47.95

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