Works by Amartya Sen
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- The idea of justice.Amartya Sen -2009 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political ...
- The Tacit Dimension. --.Michael Polanyi &Amartya Sen -1966 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago.Suitable for students and scholars, this title challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.
- Inequality Reexamined.Amartya Sen -1927 - Oxford University Press UK.This book develops some of the most important themes of Sen's works over the last decade. He argues in a rich and subtle approach that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than their resources or welfare.
- Commodities and Capabilities.Amartya Sen -1985 - Oxford University Press India.Commodities and Capabilities presents a set of inter-related theses concerning the foundations of welfare economics, and in particular about the assessment of personal well-being and advantage. The argument presented focuses on the capability to function, i.e. what a person can do or can be, questioning in the process the more standard emphasis on opulence or on utility. In fact, a person's motivation behind choice is treated here as a parametric variable which may or may not coincide with the pursuit of (...) self-interest. Given the large number of practical problems arising from the roles and limitations of different concepts of interest and the judgement of advantage and well-being, this scholarly investigation is both of theoretical interest and practical import. (shrink)
- Rational fools: A critique of the behavioral foundations of economic theory.Amartya Sen -1977 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (4):317-344.
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare: An Expanded Edition.Amartya Sen -2017 - Harvard University Press.No categories
- The Quality of Life.Martha Nussbaum,Amartya Sen &Master Amartya Sen (eds.) -1993 - Oxford University Press.
- (1 other version)Inequality Reexamined.John Roemer &Amartya Sen -1994 -Philosophical Review 103 (3):554.No categories
- Well-being, agency and freedom: The Dewey lectures 1984.Amartya Sen -1985 -Journal of Philosophy 82 (4):169-221.
- On Ethics and Economics.Amartya Sen -1989 -Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (4):722-723.No categories
- (1 other version)Rights and agency.Amartya Sen -1982 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 11 (1):3-39.This paper is about three distinct but interrelated problems: (1) the role 0f rights in moral theory, (2) thc characterization 0f agent relative values and their admissibility in consequ<—:ncc—bascd evaluation, and ( 3) the nature 0f moral evaluation 0f states 0f aihirs.
- On Economic Inequality.Amartya Sen -1997 - Clarendon Press.Based on the 1972 Radcliffe Lectures, this book presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality.
- Rationality and Freedom.Amartya Sen -2005 -Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (1):182-183.No categories
- What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?Amartya Sen -2006 -Journal of Philosophy 103 (5):215-238.
- (1 other version)The Quality of life.Martha Nussbaum &Amartya Sen -1993 -Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 57 (2):377-378.No categories
- Equality of what?Amartya Sen -1987 - In John Rawls & Sterling M. McMurrin,Liberty, equality, and law: selected Tanner lectures on moral philosophy. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
- Inequality Re-examined.David Archard &Amartya Sen -1995 -Philosophical Quarterly 45 (181):553.This book develops some of the most important themes of Sen's works over the last decade. He argues in a rich and subtle approach that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than their resources or welfare.
- Utilitarianism and welfarism.Amartya Sen -1979 -Journal of Philosophy 76 (9):463-489.
- Internal consistency of choice.Amartya Sen -1993 -Econometrica 61:495–521.
- Human rights and capabilities.Amartya Sen -2009 - In Mark Goodale,Human rights: an anthropological reader. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Positional objectivity.Amartya Sen -1993 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 22 (2):126-145.
- Consequential Evaluation and Practical Reason.Amartya Sen -2000 -Journal of Philosophy 97 (9):477.
- Democracy as a universal value.Amartya Sen -unknownIn the summer of 1997, I was asked by a leading Japanese newspaper what I thought was the most important thing that had happened in the twentieth century. I found this to be an unusually thought-provoking question, since so many things of gravity have happened over the last hundred years. The European empires, especially the British and French ones that had so dominated the nineteenth century, came to an end. We witnessed two world wars. We saw the rise and fall (...) of fascism and Nazism. The century witnessed the rise of communism, and its fall (as in the former Soviet bloc) or radical transformation (as in China). We also saw a shift from the economic dominance of the West to a new economic balance much more dominated by Japan and East and Southeast Asia. Even though that region is going through some financial and economic problems right now, this is not going to nullify the shift in the balance of the world economy that has occurred over many decades (in the case of Japan, through nearly the entire century). The past hundred years are not lacking in important events. (shrink)
- The Idea of Justice: A Reply.Amartya Sen -2011 -Social Philosophy Today 27:233-239.
- (1 other version)The Moral Standing of the Market.Amartya Sen -1985 -Social Philosophy and Policy 2 (2):1.How valuable is the market mechanism for practical morality? What is its moral standing? We can scarcely doubt that as individuals we do value tremendously the opportunity of using markets. Indeed, without access to markets most of us would perish, since we don't typically produce the things that we need to survive. If we could somehow survive without using markets at all, our quality of life would be rather abysmal. It is natural to feel that an institution that is so (...) crucial to our well-being must be valuable. And since moral evaluation can hardly be indifferent to our interests and their fulfillment, it might appear that there is nothing much to discuss here. The market's moral standing “has to be” high. (shrink)
- Evaluator relativity and consequential evaluation.Amartya Sen -1983 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 12 (2):113-132.
- XII*—Plural Utility.Amartya Sen -1981 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 81 (1):193-216.Amartya Sen; XII*—Plural Utility, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 81, Issue 1, 1 June 1981, Pages 193–216, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/.
- Utilitarianism and Beyond.Amartya Sen &Bernard Williams (eds.) -1982 - New York: Cambridge University Press.A volume of studies of utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice. All but two of the papers have been commissioned especially for the volume, and between them they represent not only a wide range of arguments for and against utilitarianism but also a first-class selection of the most interesting and influential work in this very active area. There is also a substantial introduction by the two editors. The volume will constitute an (...) important stimulus and point of reference for a wide range of philosophers, economists and social theorists. (shrink)
- Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense?Amartya Sen -1993 -Business Ethics Quarterly 3 (1):45-54.The importance of business ethics is not contrdicted in any way by Adam Smith’s pointer to the fact that our “regards to our own interests” provide adequate motivation tor exchange. There are many important economic relationships other than exchange, such as the institution of production and arrangements of distribution. Here business ethics can playa major part. Even as far as exchange is concerned, business ethics can be crucially important in terms of organization and behavior, going weil beyond basic motivation.
- Justice: Means versus freedoms.Amartya Sen -1990 -Philosophy and Public Affairs 19 (2):111-121.
- Social unity and primary goods.Amartya Sen &B. Willliams -1982 - In Amartya Sen & Bernard Williams,Utilitarianism and Beyond. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 159--185.
- Liberty and social choice.Amartya Sen -1983 -Journal of Philosophy 80 (1):5-28.
- Welfare inequalities and Rawlsian axiomatics.Amartya Sen -1976 -Theory and Decision 7 (4):243-262.
- Moral Information.Amartya Sen -1985 -Journal of Philosophy 82 (4):169-184.
- Open and Closed Impartiality.Amartya Sen -2002 -Journal of Philosophy 99 (9):445.No categories
- Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What's Wrong With Welfare Economics.Amartya K. Sen -1979 -Economic Journal 89 (355):537-558.
- Economics, Business Principles and Moral Sentiments.Amartya Sen -1997 -Business Ethics Quarterly 7 (3):5-15.This essay discusses the place of business principles and of moral sentiments in economic success, and examines the role of cultures in influencing norms of business behavior. Two presumptions held in standard economic analysis are disputed: the rudimentary nature of business principles (essentially restricted, directly or indirectly, to profit maximization), and the allegedly narrow reach of moral sentiments (often treated to be irrelevant to business and economics). In contrast, the author argues for the need to recognize the complex structure of (...) business principles and the extensive reach of moral sentiments by using theoretical considerations, a thorough analysis of Adam Smith’s work, and a careful interpretation of Japan’s remarkable economic success. Referring to the economic corruption in Italy and the “grabbing culture” in Russia, he further shows how deeply the presence or absence of particular features of business ethics can influence the operation of the economy, and even the nature of the society and itspolitics. Being an Indian himself, he warns against grand generalizations like the superiority of “Asian values” over traditional Western morals. To conclude, it is diversity—over space, over time, and between groups —that makes the study of business principles and moral sentiments a rich source of understanding and explanation. (shrink)
- On Economic Inequality.Peter Vallentyne,Amartya Sen &James E. Foster -1999 -Philosophical Review 108 (1):85.This is a reprint of Amartya Sen’s 1973 book on the measurement of inequality, plus an updated bibliography and index, and an annex by James Foster and Sen that summarizes and comments on the main developments since 1973. The book is superbly written and focuses on verbal discussion of the plausibility and significance of the conditions, theorems, and measures.No categories
- Health Achievement and Equity: External and Internal Perspectives.Amartya Sen,S. Anand,F. Peter &A. K. Sen -2004 - In Sudhir Anand,Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford University Press UK.
- Reason and Justice: The Optimal and the Maximal.Amartya Sen -2017 -Philosophy 92 (1):5-19.This paper is a revised version of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Annual Lecture, 2016. It discusses the demands of critical reasoning in ethical arguments, and focuses in particular on the assessment of justice. It disputes the belief that reasoning about choice remains unfinished until an optimal alternative has been identified. A successful closure of a reasoning may identify a maximal alternative, which is not judged to be worse than any other available option. A maximal alternative need not be optimal (...) in the sense of being ‘best’. Critically sound reasoning can lead us to a partial ordering yielding a maximal alternative that is not optimal. The compulsive search for an optimal alternative needlessly limits the reach of reasoning in ethics. (shrink)No categories
- Why exactly is commitment important for rationality?Amartya Sen -2005 -Economics and Philosophy 21 (1):5-14.Gary Becker and others have done important work to broaden the content of self interest, but have not departed from seeing rationality in terms of the exclusive pursuit of self-interest. One reason why committed behavior is important is that a person can have good reason to pursue objectives other than self interest maximization (no matter how broadly it is construed). Indeed, one can also follow rules of behavior that go beyond the pursuit of one's own goals, even if the goals (...) include non-self-interested concerns. By living in a society, one develops possible reasons for considering other people's goals as well, which takes one beyond an exclusive concentration on one's own goals, not to mention the single-minded pursuit of one's own self interest. The recognition of other people's goals may be a part of rational thought. If rational behavior may depart from the relentless pursuit of one's own goals, commitment has to be important in a theory of rationality. Furthermore, seeing the role of commitment in human behavior can have explanatory importance in allowing us to understand behavior patterns that are hard to fit into the narrow format of contemporary rational choice theory. Commitment is, thus, important both for practical reason and for causal explanation. (shrink)
- Incompleteness and reasoned choice.Amartya Sen -2004 -Synthese 140 (1-2):43 - 59.No categories
- Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship.Luis A. Camacho,Colin Campbell,David A. Crocker,Eleonora Curlo,Herman E. Daly,Eliezer Diamond,Robert Goodland,Allen L. Hammond,Nathan Keyfitz,Robert E. Lane,Judith Lichtenberg,David Luban,James A. Nash,Martha C. Nussbaum,ThomasW Pogge,Mark Sagoff,Juliet B. Schor,Michael Schudson,Jerome M. Segal,Amartya Sen,Alan Strudler,Paul L. Wachtel,Paul E. Waggoner,David Wasserman &Charles K. Wilber (eds.) -1997 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines—philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social psychology—examine the causes, nature, and consequences of present-day consumption patterns in the United States and throughout the world.
- Reason, Freedom and Well-being.Amartya Sen -2006 -Utilitas 18 (1):80-96.I am embarrassed at being placed in the dizzying company of one of the truly great thinkers in the world. The similarities between Mill's ideas and mine partly reflect, of course, his influence on my thinking. But I also discuss some difficulties in taking Mill's whole theory without modification, since there are internal tensions within it. In a paper I published in 1967, I tried to discuss how Mill's willingness to hold on to some contrary positions depended on the nature (...) of his empirical reading of the world. I draw on that diagnosis in commenting on some of the articles here. There are some serious issues of misinterpretation in one of the articles, which I try to clarify. I also comment on Arrow's interpretation of what is involved in the idea of autonomy and on his own way of assessing freedom, and acknowledge the seriousness of the questions he raises about the value of freedom in normative political philosophy. (shrink)
- Adam Smith and the contemporary world.Amartya Sen -2010 -Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3 (1):50-67.This paper argues that many of Adam Smith’s insights,particularly those in his Theory of moral sentiments, have a relevance tocontemporary thought about economics and ethics that is currentlyunderappreciated. In economics, for example, Smith was concerned notonly with the sufficiency of self-interest at the moment of exchange butalso with the wider moral motivations and institutions required tosupport economic activity in general. In ethics, Smith’s concept of animpartial spectator who is able to view our situation from a criticaldistance has much to contribute (...) to a fuller understanding of therequirements of justice, particularly through an understanding ofimpartiality as going beyond the interests and concerns of a localcontracting group. Smith’s open, realization-focussed and comparativeapproach to evaluation contrasts with what I call the “transcendentalinstitutionalism” popular in contemporary political philosophy andassociated particularly with the work of John Rawls. (shrink)
- Rawls versus Bentham: An axiomatic examination of the pure distribution problem.Amartya Sen -1974 -Theory and Decision 4 (3-4):301-309.No categories
- Rationality and uncertainty.Amartya Sen -1985 -Theory and Decision 18 (2):109-127.
- The Political Economy of Hunger.Amartya Sen -2019 -Common Knowledge 25 (1-3):348-356.Sen’s essay concerns the existence of extensive hunger amidst unprecedented global prosperity in the contemporary world, but he argues that the problem would be decisively solvable if our response were no longer shaped by Malthusian pessimism. Effective famine prevention does not turn on food supply per head and the automatic mechanism of the market: there can be plenty of food while large sections of the population lack the means to obtain it. Effective famine prevention thus requires “entitlements.” Economically, governments can (...) and should provide public employment programs so that those threatened by famine can be empowered to command food. Politically, democratic participation and a free press can work to ensure government accountability for famine prevention. The choice that Sen urges, however, is not for the state over the market—the experience of the Indian state of Kerala demonstrates that a voluntaristic approach can work as well or better than China’s compulsory “one child policy” in limiting the rapid population growth that contributes to world hunger. Rather, a reasoned solution to the problem of hunger must acknowledge the complementary importance of both well-functioning markets and open and democratic public action. (shrink)No categories
- 60 Population: Delusion and Reality.Amartya Sen -forthcoming -Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions.No categories
- Why Health Equity?Amartya Sen -2004 - In Sudhir Anand,Public Health, Ethics, and Equity. Oxford University Press UK.
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