Amartya Sen citations

Amartya Kumar Sen , est un économiste. Il a reçu le prix Nobel d'économie en 1998, pour ses travaux sur la famine, sur la théorie du développement humain, sur l'économie du bien-être, sur les mécanismes fondamentaux de la pauvreté, et sur le libéralisme politique. Il est l'initiateur de l'approche par les capabilités.

De 1998 à 2004, il a été directeur du Trinity College à l'Université de Cambridge, devenant ainsi le premier universitaire asiatique à diriger un des collèges d'Oxbridge. Amartya Sen est aussi partie prenante dans le débat sur la mondialisation. Il a donné des conférences devant les dirigeants de la Banque mondiale et il a été le président honoraire d'Oxfam.

Parmi ses nombreuses contributions à l'économie du développement, Sen a fait des études sur les inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes, qu'il dénonce en utilisant toujours un pronom féminin pour se référer à une personne abstraite. Il est aujourd'hui professeur universitaire Lamont à l'Université Harvard. Les livres d'Amartya Sen ont été traduits en plus de trente langues.

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Amartya Sen Citations

Amartya Sen: Citations en anglais

“the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute”

Source: The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

“John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.”

Amartya Sen, quoted in Jonathan Steele, " Last of the old-style liberals http://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/apr/06/socialsciences.highereducation", The Guardian (2002)
2000s

“Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.”

Amartya Sen, "Ten theses on globalization." New Perspectives Quarterly 18.4 (2001): 9-9.
2000s

“That austerity is a counterproductive economic policy in a situation of economic recession can be seen, rightly, as a “Keynesian critique.” Keynes did argue—and persuasively—that to cut public expenditure when an economy has unused productive capacity as well as unemployment owing to a deficiency of effective demand would tend to have the effect of slowing down the economy further and increasing—rather than decreasing—unemployment. Keynes certainly deserves much credit for making that rather basic point clear even to policymakers, irrespective of their politics, and he also provided what I would call a sketch of a theory of explaining how all this can be nicely captured within a general understanding of economic interdependences between different activities… I am certainly supportive of this Keynesian argument, and also of Paul Krugman’s efforts in cogently developing and propagating this important perspective, and in questioning the policy of massive austerity in Europe.
But I would also argue that the unsuitability of the policy of austerity is only partly due to Keynesian reasons. Where we have to go well beyond Keynes is in asking what public expenditure is for—other than for just strengthening effective demand, no matter what its content. As it happens, European resistance to savage cuts in public services and to indiscriminate austerity is not based only, or primarily, on Keynesian reasoning. The resistance is based also on a constructive point about the importance of public services—a perspective that is of great economic as well as political interest in Europe.”

Amartya Sen, "What Happened to Europe?", New Republic (August 2, 2012)
2010s

“Amartya Sen is not Indian. He had lost his Indian-ness after he left his Bengali ex-wife and married two foreign females. He has lived abroad and only visits the country for a couple of months, which cannot make you Indian.”

Subramanian Swamy, "Sen 'lost Indian-ness' after dumping Bengali wife for foreign brides: Swamy" http://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/sen-lost-indian-ness-after-dumping-bengali-wife-for-foreign-brides-swamy-113072300490_1.html#.Ue8bEFEgKO4.twitter, Business Standard (23 July 2013)

“The impoverishment of economics related to its distancing from ethics affects both welfare economics (narrowing its reach and relevance) and predictive economics”

weakening its behavioural foundations
Chap. 2 : Economic Judgements and Moral Philosophy
1990s, On Ethics and Economics (1991)

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