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I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

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Amartya Sen
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: November 3
Economist
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Shantiniketan
Amartya Kumar Sen
Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
Left
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Collectives
Collective
Welfare
Choice
Choices
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Delhi

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Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.
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You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.
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I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
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Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.
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I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.
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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
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Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.
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Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of.
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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
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No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
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The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that algorithm derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.
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Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.
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We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.
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The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple.
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The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.
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Democracy is a universal value
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Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact in reducing fertility is girls' education.
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