Amartya Sen

Book Overview

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is seminal, and his writings on poverty, famine, and development, as well his contributions to moral and political philosophy, are important and influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521618061
• ISBN13: 9780521618069
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"