Amartya Kumar Sen

Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy Amartya Sen

The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls' A Theory of Justice. Sen argues that what we urgently need in our troubled world is not a theory of an ideally just state, but a theory that can yield judgments as to comparative justice, judgments that tell us when and why we are moving closer to or farther away from realizing justice in the present globalized world.

The Idea of Justice

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Jean-Paul Fitouss

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - the most widely used measure of economic activity - is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agenda for developing better measures. Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping assessment of the limits of GDP as a measurement of the well-being of societies - considering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental impacts into economic decisions.In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a ''green GDP.'' At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to measuring the things that matter.

Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

Mismeasuring Our Lives

Amartya Sen wurde 1998 mit dem Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ausgezeichnet. Als einer der bedeutenden Wirtschaftstheoretiker der Gegenwart fordert er die Moral in der Marktwirtschaft ein und packt das Weltproblem Nr. 1 an: die sich immer weiter öffnende Schere zwischen dem global agierenden Turbokapitalismus und der zunehmenden Arbeitslosigkeit und Verelendung. Ein engagiertes Buch, das erklärt, dass Freiheit, Gleichheit und Solidarität für die Weltwirtschaft wichtig sind.

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Wege zu Gerechtigkeit und Solidarität in der Marktwirtschaft

Ökonomie für den Menschen

LAURA TEIXEIRA MOTTA

'Desenvolvimento como liberdade' é uma síntese das vantagens de uma ideia radical - o desenvolvimento é um processo de expansão das liberdades que as pessoas desfrutam. O objetivo do livro é fazer com que o leitor entenda a situação econômica e social de países pobres ou em desenvolvimento, como o Brasil, presente nas análises de Sen, que ilustra suas ideias com dados comparativos entre os diversos países.

Desenvolvimento como liberdade

Commodities and Capabilities

Jean Drèze

This text comprises three works by two well-known economists. The trilogy discusses causes of hunger, the role public action can play in its alleviation and the Indian experience in this context. It provides a comprehensive, theoretical and empirical analysis of relevant developmental issue.

Comprising Poverty and Famines, Hunger and Public Action, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity

The Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze Omnibus

Poor, Relatively Speaking

Athar Hussain

The Political Economy of Hunger is the classic analysis of an extraordinary paradox: in a world of food surpluses and satiety, hunger kills millions more people each year than wars or political repression. Now this abridged version, edited by Athar Hussain, puts the most influential essays from the three-volume work within the reach of concerned citizens. Ranging from Africa to South Asia to China, and written by an international array of authorities, the essays included in this abridgement give the best available analysis of the causes of worldwide hunger and deprivation, and the best hope for effective aid policies in the future.

Amartya Kumar Sen

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