Finding our common ground
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen was once famously described as the "conscience of hisMy first exposure to murder occurred when I was 11. This was in 1944, in the communal riots that...
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The 18th-century philosopher Adam Smith wasn’t the free-market fundamentalist he is thought to haveThe Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith's first book, was published in early 1759. Smith, then a...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists must stop ignoring the needs of poor nations when combating...
Campaigns against pollution that causes climate change often focus on reducing energy usage, when poor countries desperately need that energy to give their citizens freer and fuller lives. A new...
View ArticleAmartya Sen: The economic consequences of austerity
The judgements of our financial and political leaders are breathtakingly narrow. Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen considers the alternatives.Austerity for one, austerity for all: The Signing...
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