Amartya Sen

Dzieła

• 1999Rozwój i wolność

  Rozwój jako poszerzanie realnych wolności.

• 2009Idea sprawiedliwości

  Sprawiedliwość porównawcza zamiast transcendentalnej – z bezstronnym obserwatorem Smitha.

Stanowisko

Sen connects economics with moral philosophy. His studies of famines argued that they arise less from a lack of food than from a collapse of people’s entitlements to it – and that no major famine has occurred in a functioning democracy with a free press. Against measuring welfare only in income or utility, he developed the capability approach: what matters is what people are actually able to do and to be – to be healthy, educated, to take part in public life. Development, he argued, is the expansion of such real freedoms. In The Idea of Justice he criticised Rawls’ search for a perfectly just society and proposed comparing real alternatives to reduce manifest injustice. His work shaped the UN’s Human Development Index.

Życie i kontekst

Sen was born in 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal; as a child he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943. He studied in Calcutta and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and taught in Delhi, at the London School of Economics, Oxford and Harvard; from 1998 to 2004 he was Master of Trinity College. In 1998 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)
• Poverty and Famines (1981)
• Development as Freedom (1999)
• Identity and Violence (2006)
• The Idea of Justice (2009)

Pojawia się w

• Podróż „Co jest sprawiedliwe?” · Przystanek 10 z 10
• Debata „Sprawiedliwość i równość”