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Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
Amartya SenThe world may be more riven by murderous violence than ever before, yet Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen argues in this sweeping philosophical work that its brutalities are driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred.
Inequality Reexamined
Amartya SenIn this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum all men are created equal serves largely to deflect attention from the fact that we differ in age, gender, talents, physical abilities as well as in material advantages and social ...
The Standard of Living
Amartya SenAmartya Sen Geoffrey Hawthorn. important, if not always easy, to distinguish functionings from capabilities to function and capabilities to choose to function. Capabilities imply freedoms. That is part of the point of considering them.
Resources, Values and Development
Amartya SenResources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen's path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, investment planning, shadow pricing, employment policy, and ...
Amartya Sen
PreviewThis volume of essays on aspects of Sen's work is aimed at a broad audience of readers interested in social theory, political philosophy, ethics, public policy, welfare economics, the theory of rational choice, poverty, and development.
On Ethics and Economics
Amartya SenThese essays are based on the Royer Lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Idea of Justice
Amartya SenPresents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
Development as Freedom
Amartya SenThe 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics states that freedom is the most efficient means of sustaining economic life and securing welfare throughout the world, explaining how his theories can be applied today. (Publisher's blurb.)
Peace and Democratic Society
Amartya SenCivil Paths to Peace contains the analyses and findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, established in response to the 2005 request of Commonwealth Head of Government for the Commonwealth Secretary-General to ...
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Sylvia NasarTraces how the works of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew reflected the poor majority in mid-nineteenth-century London, citing the achievements of such influential figures as John Maynard Keyes, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen.
Food and Society: A Sociological Approach
William C. WhitReferences Anand, Sudhir, and S.M. Ravikanbur. 1991. "Public Policy and Basic Needs Provision: Intervention and Achievement in Sri Lanka." In The Political Economy of Hunger, vol. 3. Endemic Hunger, ed. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, ...
Environment Abstracts
More editions... Ivan D. Selikotf, Irving J. Selim, H. M. Selim, H. M. Semonin, R. G. Sen, Ashish K. Sen, Ashish K. Sen, Ashish K. Sen. Ashish K. Serper, Allen Settlemyre, J. Lee Sewell, W. R. Derrick Seyb, Les Seymour, Michael D. Shafer, Robert R. Shaffer, ...
Genocidal Nightmares: Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic ...
PreviewJutta Weldes, Mark Laffey, Hugh Gusterson and Raymond Duvall, 'Introduction: Constructing Insecurity', in Jutta Weldes et al., eds., Cultures of Insecurity, p. 11. Amartya Sen, Identity & Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, London: Penguin Books , ...
The development of a geographic transportation network ...
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Transportation Center... Morlok and Robert F. Sullivan 7 Ashish K. Sen and Edwin N. Thomas 8 Ashish K. Sen and Edwin N. Thomas 9 Ashish K. Sen and Edwin N. Thomas 10 Arnim H. Meyburg, Ashish K. Sen, and Edwin N. Thomas 11 Ashish K. Sen, John A. Silk, ...
Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians: ...
PreviewI first came to know the Sen family before I ever met the daughter who was to become my wife. My ustad Sabri Khan brought me to meet Mr. D.P. Sen—my future father-in-law—on a casual social visit, because D.P. Sen had been a member of ...
Technologies of Choice?: ICTs, Development, and the ...
Dorothea KleineDrawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development--which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development--Dorothea Kleine in Technologies of Choice? examines the relationship ...
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in ...
PreviewM. Walker, E. Unterhalter. 12. Conclusion: Capabilities,. Social. Justice,. and. Education. Elaine. Unterhalter. and. Melanie. Walker. The. chapters in this collection have considered how the capability approach helps us to think about some key ...
Remembering Sir J.C. Bose
D. P. Sen GuptaD. P. Sen Gupta ... loud and at times violent protests from both sides of the divided Bengal. There was an unmistakable cultural divide amongst the 1 Chapter 1 Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Man and His Time D. P. Sen Gupta 1.1. Introduction.
Tax Notes
More editions1273 BOREN SEN DAVID L., EXEMPT OIL TREATMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1575 BOREN SEN DAVID L KEOGH ... 181 BOREN SEN DAVIDL S 1898 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1464 ..... 1010 BRENNAN, DAVID L . .
Vermont Yearbook
More editionsDouglas Kitchel I, Chairman, Passumpsic; Rep. Arthur Gibb, Vice Chairman, Weybridge; Rep. J. Alan Chalmers, Clerk, Weston; Lt. Gov. John J. Daley (ex- officio), Rutland; Sen. Stoyan Christowe, West Dover; Sen. Ellery Purdy, Rutland; Sen.
Mathematical Reviews
More editionsM 93007 Semri, Peter 47118 Sen, Ashoke 81215-81216 Sen, Sandeep 68110 Senchenko, A. S 68077 Sen Gupta. ... See Sharkovskil, A. N. Sharma, Ajay K 47040-47042,47057 Sharma ... Sieber, Martin 81089 Siegel, PaulH 68121 Sierra A., Manuel See Sierra Aristizabal, Manuel Sierra Aristizabal, Manuel 03045 Siersma, ...
Regression Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications
Ashish K. SenTheory, Methods and Applications Ashish K. Sen, Muni S. Srivastava. Ashish Sen Muni Srivastava Regression Analysis Theory, Methods, and Applications With 38 Illustrations $ Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Ashish Sen College of ...
Plants for Environmental Studies
Wuncheng (Woodr WangSen AK, Mondal NG (1987) Salvinia natans — as a scavenger of Hg(II). Water Air Soil Pollut 34:439-446. Sen AK, Mondal NG (1990) Removal and uptake of copper(II) by Salvinia natans from waste water. Water Air Soil Pollut 49:1-6. Sen AK ...
System Modelling and Optimization: Methods, Theory and ...
Preview[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] J.L. Higle and S. Sen (1996a), Stochastic Decomposition: A Statistical Method for Large ... A MODEL WHICH INTEGRATES STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ASPECTS OF FOREST 188 Julia L. Higle and Suvrajeet Sen.
A banda sen futuro
Marilar AleixandreA banda sen futuro reflicte a historia de Carlota, unha rapaza de dezaseis anos que debe facer amigos no seu instituto novo.
Samar Sen
Nityapriẏa Ghosha... the information at the outset of their acquaintance made him immediately dear to Samar), Jyourmoy Lahiri who was equally interested in cultural matters as Amitabha was, and a gendeman called Khuro (D P Sen), without whom, Samar used ...
101 Inclusive and SEN Maths Lessons: Fun Activities and ...
Claire BrewerWhen working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus, movement and fine and gross motor skills, and the activities in this book have been ...
Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
More editionsStrike by the employees of Regional Rural Banks THE DEPUTY CHATRMAN: Mr. Ashish Sen. We have only eleven minutes. I have to accommodate four people. So please be very brief. SHRI ASHISH SEN (West Bengal): Ten minutes?
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