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Product Description: This new Major Work from Routledge is a five-volume collection of the key critical assessments of Amartya Sen (b. 1933), probably best known for his work on famine, human development and welfare economics. Sen is one of the few modern academics who has commanded much respect and recognition from across the intellectual spectrum...read more
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9780415367028 | Routledge, February 28, 2007, cover price $1680.00 | About this edition: This new Major Work from Routledge is a five-volume collection of the key critical assessments of Amartya Sen (b.

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Arguing that the violence of today's world is as much as factor of misunderstanding as it is of cultural differences, a Nobel Laureate explains that modern conflicts have origins in illusions about identity, morality, and other factors, in an account that presents the author's vision of how the world can move toward peace. Reprint.
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9780393060072 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Contends that the violence of today's world is as much a result of misunderstanding as it is of cultural differences and explains that modern conflicts have origins in illusions about factors such as identity and morality.

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9780393329292 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Arguing that the violence of today's world is as much as factor of misunderstanding as it is of cultural differences, a Nobel Laureate explains that modern conflicts have origins in illusions about identity, morality, and other factors, in an account that presents the author's vision of how the world can move toward peace.

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In a collection of sixteen interlinked essays, the Nobel Prize-winning economist shares his observations on India's intellectual and political heritage, revealing how the country's argumentative tradition is vital for the continuing success of its democracy and secular politics. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780374105839 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 12, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native countryIndia is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints.

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9780312426026 | Picador USA, September 19, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In a collection of sixteen interlinked essays, the Nobel Prize-winning economist shares his observations on India's intellectual and political heritage, revealing how the country's argumentative tradition is vital for the continuing success of its democracy and secular politics.

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Product Description: This volume brings together leading public intellectuals—Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, François Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman—to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty and inequality...read more
By David B. Grusky (editor), Ravi Kanbur (editor), S. M. Ravi Kanbur (editor) and Amartya Kumar Sen (editor)
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9780804748421 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 24, 2006, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together leading public intellectuals—Amartya Sen, Martha C.

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9780804748438 | Stanford Univ Pr, January 24, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together leading public intellectuals—Amartya Sen, Martha C.

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Product Description: Amartya Sen, Premio Nobel de Economía en 1998, publicó esta obra por primera vez en 1973. Serie de reflexiones ayudan no sólo a medir, sino a explicar la desigualdad. Con su trabajo ha demostrado que las hambrunas no son producto del fracaso o consecuencia de la sequía, sino del hecho primordial de que los sectores más pobres del mundo no tienen el derecho individual de que se les proporcione alimentos...read more
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9789681662776 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2002, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Amartya Sen, Premio Nobel de Economía en 1998, publicó esta obra por primera vez en 1973.

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The 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics states that freedom is the most efficient means of sustaining economic life and securing welfare throughout the world, explaining how his theories can be applied today. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780375406195 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics presents an incisive explication of his theory of global economic development, that links individual human freedom and the welfare of the world's population with worldwide economic development

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9780385720274 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 1, 2000), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics states that freedom is the most efficient means of sustaining economic life and securing welfare throughout the world, explaining how his theories can be applied today.

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Product Description: Focusing on the inter-relationship between institutions, technology, and employment, the author investigates the institutional factors which affect policy-making: modes of production, patterns of ownership, and systems of employment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195651102 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 18, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Focusing on the inter-relationship between institutions, technology, and employment, the author investigates the institutional factors which affect policy-making: modes of production, patterns of ownership, and systems of employment.

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Product Description: Commodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, i...read more
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9780195650389 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Commodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage.
9780444877307 | Elsevier Science Ltd, December 1, 1985, cover price $82.75 | About this edition: This monograph explores the foundations of welfare economics - in particular the assessment of personal well-being and advantage.

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Product Description: Since the Second World War the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways. The impossibility theorems have suggested many directions: mathematical characterisations of voting structures satisfying various sets of conditions, the consequences of restricting choice to certain domains, the relation to competitive equilibrium and the core, and trade-offs among the partial satisfactions of some conditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Kenneth J. Arrow (editor), Amartya Kumar Sen (editor) and Kotaro Suzumura (editor)
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9780312127398 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 1997, cover price $173.00 | About this edition: Since the Second World War the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways.

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Product Description: Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on choice, preference, rationality, aggregation, and measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues...read more
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9780262192149 | Mit Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: In the course of his distinguished career, Amartya K.

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9780674127784 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 1997, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on choice, preference, rationality, aggregation, and measurement.

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Product Description: Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, investment planning, shadow pricing, employment policy, and welfare economics. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674765252 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1984, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment, gender-based inequality, and hunger and famines.

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9780674765269, titled "Resources, Values and Development" | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 1997), cover price $40.50 | About this edition: Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, investment planning, shadow pricing, employment policy, and welfare economics.

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Product Description: India is a country of extreme economic and social diversity, and the performances of Indian states in eliminating basic deprivations are remarkably disparate. This book, a companion volume to Dr�ze's and Sen's India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity (OUP 1996), draws lessons from this diversity through three case studies (of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Kerala) and two national overviews that look at socio-economic policy and demographic indicators...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198292043 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 2, 1997, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: India is a country of extreme economic and social diversity, and the performances of Indian states in eliminating basic deprivations are remarkably disparate.

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Product Description: Professor Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous seminal work, On Economic Inequality, first published in 1973, and provides new analyses and insights in this crucial area. This original and incisive book brings together and develops some of the most important themes of Sen's work over the last decade...read more
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9780198283348 | Clarendon Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Professor Sen revisits the issues tackled in his previous seminal work, On Economic Inequality, first published in 1973, and provides new analyses and insights in this crucial area.
9780674452558 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum "all men are created equal" serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background.

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9780674452565 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 15, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum "all men are created equal" serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social background.

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Product Description: Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways. The impossibility theorems have suggested many directions: mathematical characterisations of voting structures satisfying various sets of conditions, the consequences of restricting choice to certain domaines, the relation to competitive equilibrium and the core, and trade-offs among the partial satisfactions of some conditions...read more
By Kenneth J. Arrow (editor), International Economic Association (corporate author), Amartya Kumar Sen (editor) and Kotaro Suzumura (editor)
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9780312127411 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 1, 1996, cover price $173.00 | About this edition: Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways.

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Product Description: Hailed on its initial publication as a work with immediate implications for countless lives, Dreze & Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and diseases of overeating, hunger kills millions more people each year than wars or political repression...read more
By Jean Dreze (editor), Athar Hussain (editor) and Amartya Kumar Sen
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9780198288831 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 24, 1995, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Hailed on its initial publication as a work with immediate implications for countless lives, Dreze & Sen's The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and diseases of overeating, hunger kills millions more people each year than wars or political repression.

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Product Description: Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests and the inspiration he has provided for others...read more
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9780198287896 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 13, 1995, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests and the inspiration he has provided for others.

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Product Description: The idea of the quality of life is central to economic and social assessment and also to public policy, social legislation, and community programs. However, the commonly used indicators of economic success such as per capita income are at best crude measures of the quality of life...read more
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9780198287971 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 1, 1993), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The idea of the quality of life is central to economic and social assessment and also to public policy, social legislation, and community programs.

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Product Description: This volume is the first of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world. It deals with the background nutritional, economic, social, and political aspects of the problem of world hunger...read more
By Jean Dreze (editor) and Amartya Kumar Sen (editor)
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9780198286356 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 11, 1991, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This volume is the first of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world.

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Product Description: This volume, the second of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world, deals primarily with famine prevention--paying special attention to sub-Saharan Africa...read more
By Jean Dreze (editor) and Amartya Kumar Sen (editor)
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9780198286363 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 11, 1991, cover price $206.50 | About this edition: This volume, the second of three addressing a wide range of policy issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world, deals primarily with famine prevention--paying special attention to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Product Description: This last of three volumes addressing a wide range of issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world, deals with strategic options for the elimination of endemic hunger. The topics covered include: the comparative extent of hunger and deprivation in different parts of the world; the influence of food production; the interconnections between economic growth and public support; the role of economic diversification in reducing vulnerability; the potential impact of direct public provisioning on living standards; and the politics of public action...read more
By Jean Dreze (editor) and Amartya Kumar Sen (editor)
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9780198286370 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 28, 1991, cover price $206.50 | About this edition: This last of three volumes addressing a wide range of issues relating to the role of public action in combating hunger and deprivation in the modern world, deals with strategic options for the elimination of endemic hunger.

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Product Description: A representative selection of the writings of one of India's foremost agricultural policymakers, these articles and essays focus on the responses in Indian agriculture to financial and technological developments over twenty-five years.
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9780195621068 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A representative selection of the writings of one of India's foremost agricultural policymakers, these articles and essays focus on the responses in Indian agriculture to financial and technological developments over twenty-five years.

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Product Description: A volume of studies of utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice. All but two of the papers have been commissioned especially for the volume, and between them they represent not only a wide range of arguments for and against utilitarianism but also a first-class selection of the most interesting and influential work in this very active area...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521242967 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 30, 1982), cover price $44.50

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9780521287715 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: A volume of studies of utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice.

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