The Country Of First Boys: And Other Essays - Rilegato

Sen, Amartya

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ISBN 10: 019945325X ISBN 13: 9780199453252

Casa editrice: OUP India, 2015

Riassunto

Time and again Amartya Sen, one of the polymaths of our times, has stirred our thoughts and world-views through his writings and speeches. Intrigued by the questions of social justice and welfare, he argues, in this work, some of the fundamental issues-poverty, hunger, education, globalization, media and freedom of speech, injustice, inequality, exclusion, exploitation, etc. - we negotiate with in our day to day lives.

With a passion and conviction masked by a gently persuasive style and characterised by an undogmatic engagement with differing points of view, Sen asserts that public policy should swing sharply towards the poor, the illiterate, and those suffering from ill health and malnourishment, and does so not just by appealing to justice and compassion but by relying on rigorous intellectual and academic analysis. Written in non-technical and easy to understand language, this volume would open a window to the ideas of an internationally renowned Nobel laureate to a wide spectrum of readers.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Senior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Earlier on he was Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University Calcutta, the Delhi School of Economics, and the London School of Economics, and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1998.

Contenuti:

• A Note from Amartya Sen
• Introduction by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
• What Should Keep Us Awake at Night
• Poverty, War and Peace
• The Country of First Boys
• Sharing the World: Interdependence and Global Justice
• Sunlight and Other Fears: The Importance of School Education as a Source of Nourishment for Indian Children
• Speaking of Freedom: Why Media Is Important for Economic Development
• Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders
• The Smallness Thrust Upon Us
• The Play's the Thing
• India Through Its Calendars
• What Difference Can Tagore Make
• About the Author

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 019945325X
• ISBN 13: 9780199453252
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288