Sarah Burd-Sharps served as the deputy director of UNDP”s Human Development Report Office until September 2006.Kristen Lewis was a lead author of the water and sanitation report of the U.N. Millennium Project, led by Jeffrey Sachs, and writes extensively on development, gender, and the environment.Eduardo Borges Martins was the chief statistician in the creation of the Human Development Index for Brazil”s municipalities.The American Human Development Project is an independent, non-profit initiative of Oxfam America, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, with additional support from the Annenberg Foundation.
50 Ebooks by Amartya Sen
Sarah Burd-Sharps & Kristen Lewis: The Measure of America
The Measure of America is the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being fo …
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Stephan Haggard & Marcus Noland: Famine in North Korea
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided pus …
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Eric Maskin & Amartya Sen: The Arrow Impossibility Theorem
Kenneth J. Arrow’s pathbreaking ‘impossibility theorem’ was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rul …
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Peter Tamas Bauer: From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen write …
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Albert O. Hirschman: The Essential Hirschman
Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century’s most influential and provocative thinkers The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest es …
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Jean Drèze & Amartya Sen: An Uncertain Glory
Why India’s problems won’t be solved by rapid economic growth alone When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political sy …
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Joseph E. Stiglitz & Amartya Sen: Mismeasuring Our Lives
In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished F …
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€15.99
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Amartya Sen: Gleichheit? Welche Gleichheit?. [Was bedeutet das alles?]
Am 22. Mai 1979 hielt der spätere Nobelpreisträger und indische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Philosoph Amartya Sen in Stanford einen Vortrag, der unser Denken über Entwicklungshilfe und Verteilungs …
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Amartya Sen & Jean Drèze: Indien
Indien hat in den letzten 70 Jahren eine erstaunliche wirtschaftliche und politische Erfolgsgeschichte vorzuweisen. Zugleich herrschen in der größten Demokratie der Erde weiterhin krasse soziale Ungl …
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€22.99
Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom
In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technic …
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Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom
In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technic …
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€12.86
Amartya Sen: Poverty and Famines
The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis–the ‘entitlement approach’–concentratin …
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€43.74
Amartya Sen: Inequality Reexamined
This book brings together and develops some of the most important economic, social, and ethical ideas Sen has explored over the last two decades. It examines the claims of equality in social arrangem …
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Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen: Hunger and Public Action
This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO). It is free t …
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€3.85
Bina Agarwal & Barbara Bergmann: Women’s Work in the World Economy
Examines the role of women and men in the economy of the future. The diverse chapters share a common concern for the effect of public policies on women’s work both in the market place and in the home …
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€26.95
Albert O. Hirschman: Passions and the Interests
In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pu …
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€23.12
Amartya Sen: Wish a Day for a Week
In this sparkling, witty and impassioned essay delivered as the keynote lecture at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014 Amartya Sen meets the Goddess of Medium Things who promises him seven wishes, on …
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€1.26
Amartya Sen: Identity and Violence
The 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 b …
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Amartya Sen: Argumentative Indian
India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an i …
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Amartya Sen: Idea of Justice
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative appro …
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Amartya Sen: Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen’s first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition’Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be a …
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Aids Sutra
India is home to almost three million HIV cases. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatized and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that prevents people from openly discussing the facts around HIV, and kee …
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Amartya Sen & Jean Dr ze: Uncertain Glory
From two of India’s leading economists, Jean Dr ze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the …
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Amartya Sen: Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)
“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous v …
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Amartya Sen: Die Idee der Gerechtigkeit
Drei Kinder streiten darüber, wem von ihnen eine Flöte gehören sollte. Das erste Kind hat Musikunterricht gehabt und kann als einziges Flöte spielen. Das zweite ist arm und besitzt keinerlei anderes …
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Amartya Sen: Identität und Gewalt
„Gewalt wird dadurch angefacht, dass man leichtgläubigen Leuten, die in die Hände von kundigen Fachleuten des Terrors fallen, ausschließliche Identitäten aufschwatzt.“ Amartya Sen Identität kann eine …
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Amartya Sen: Identität und Gewalt
„Gewalt wird dadurch angefacht, dass man leichtgläubigen Leuten, die in die Hände von kundigen Fachleuten des Terrors fallen, ausschließliche Identitäten aufschwatzt.“ Amartya Sen Identität kann eine …
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Amartya Sen: Elemente einer Theorie der Menschenrechte. [Was bedeutet das alles?]
Wenn politisches Engagement und Einsatz für Menschenrechte nicht zu blindem Aktionismus führen sollen, ist es nötig, gelegentlich innezuhalten und sich auf die Theorie der Menschenrechte zu besinnen. …
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Amartya Sen: Rationale Dummköpfe. Eine Kritik der Verhaltensgrundlagen der Ökonomischen Theorie. [Was bedeutet das alles?]
Amartya Sens meistzitierter und einflussreichster Aufsatz: Die ökonomische Theorie reduziert den Menschen auf Gier und Egoismus. Dabei verfolgen Menschen in konkreten Situationen zum Glück häufig gar …
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Amartya Sen: Home in the World
The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world’s leading public intellectuals Where is ‘home’? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places – Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the litt …
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Amartya Sen: Home in the World: A Memoir
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity. A towering figure in the field of economics, A …
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Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter: Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
In the last fifty years, average overall health status has increased more or less in parallel with a much celebrated decline in mortality, attributed mostly to poverty reduction, sanitation, nutritio …
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Martha Nussbaum & Amartya Sen: Quality of Life
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Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen: Political Economy of Hunger
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Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen: Political Economy of Hunger
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Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen: Political Economy of Hunger
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Ro Khanna: Progressive Capitalism
Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, ‘;progressive’ (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, …
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Amartya Sen: Zuhause in der Welt
Indien in den dreißiger und vierziger Jahren: Ein ziemlich intelligenter Junge beobachtet hellwach alles, was um ihn herum geschieht: die Tiere im Dschungel ebenso wie die bedrohlichen Spannungen zwi …
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Devaki Jain: The Brass Notebook
The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist, with introductory pieces from two American icons “Your heart and world will be opened by reading The Brass Notebook, the i …
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Amartya Sen: Zuhause in der Welt
Indien in den dreißiger und vierziger Jahren: Ein ziemlich intelligenter Junge beobachtet hellwach alles, was um ihn herum geschieht: die Tiere im Dschungel ebenso wie die bedrohlichen Spannungen zwi …
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