No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” observed Nobel Prize-winning ...

With high public debt, it is difficult for the Centre and State governments to choose between fiscal prudence and high ...

Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, restoring an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE from ...

Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing about the trend deflects attention from the central issue, which is the sheer magnitude of inequality and poverty on a world ...

Prabhat Patnaik examines how neoliberalism has created powerful alliances between politicians and corporate leaders, ...

A Master’s student from Kolkata on the Bengali life in NYC, from Amartya Sen and Durga Puja to kathi rolls, and more ...

A certain kind of an individual: Amartya Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen In some ways, Ghosh resonates with this when he calls Sen “the kind of an individual who is not-so-slowly becoming a lost ...

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 ...