The Country of First Boys: And Other Essays

by Amartya Sen

Time and again Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and polymath, has stimulated our thoughts and world-view through his ideas. In his new collection of cultural essays Sen examines social justice and welfare, by addressing some of the fundamental issues of our time like deprivation, disparity, hunger, illiteracy, alienation, globalization, media, freedom of speech, injustice, inequality, exclusion, and exploitation.

Sen's deeply informed and humane...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198738188
• ISBN13: 9780198738183
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 7.8"